On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 02:19:39PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On 2018-08-11 18:07 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > I'm running all the tests (except for vim - I think that dislikes my
> > use of urxvt) and I wasn't intending to look at the results until
> > later (this build is experimental, to see how much, if any, damage
> > is caused by various potential BLFS updates). But for grep 'make
> > check' unexpectedly failed (status 1) after an XFAIL.
> >
> > XFAIL triple-backref (exit status: 1)
>
> It's a good thing. Glibc-2.28 fixed a bug so this test should not
> FAIL now. See thread
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2018-08/msg00000.html>.
>
The other backref test (alt-backref) should not fail and it didn't.
But I don't pay any attention to unexpected passes (XPASS) and I
don't think we normally mention them.
[...]
> >
> > Looking at the log from the same version (3.1) when I last built it,
> > the main tests had two XFAIL, backref-alt and triple-backref but
> > WITHOUT an assertion failure.
>
> I rebuilt grep-3.1 on my LFS-8.2 with Glibc-2.27. Both
> triple-backref and backref-alt aborted because of fail assertions.
> Please recheck your result.
>
On my 20180726 system the results were as I said, no sign of any
messages for them except XFAIL, and the tests completed with normal
status.
>
> The "main" test "failed" (XPASS in fact) then `make` just bailed out.
> With "make check -k" gnulib-test would run.
>
> We can
>
> sed '/^am__append_2/d' -i tests/Makefile
>
> after configuring Grep, or just use "make check -k" and tell the
> audiences there would be a XPASS test with Glibc-2.28.
Using 'make -k check' sounds plausible.
ĸen
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