bug#22911: Minor doc changes to clarify the use of multiple -e, -f

2016-03-04 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón 
And now that I'm cleaning the patches applied to the debian package,
here is another tiny patch.

Cheers,

Santiago
>From 1c86cafdc67c157ce8744da0b32151d1e0f77545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Santiago=20Ruano=20Rinc=C3=B3n?= 
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 20:01:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: consistent PCRE doc between grep.1.in and grep.texi

---
 doc/grep.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index 8883b27..39d6276 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ expressions), separated by newlines, any of which is to be matched.
 @opindex -P
 @opindex --perl-regexp
 @cindex matching Perl regular expressions
-Interpret the pattern as a Perl regular expression.
+Interpret the pattern as a Perl regular expression (PCRE).
 This is highly experimental and
 @samp{grep@ -P} may warn of unimplemented features.
 
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ Regular expressions are constructed analogously to arithmetic expressions,
 by using various operators to combine smaller expressions.
 @command{grep} understands
 three different versions of regular expression syntax:
-``basic,'' (BRE) ``extended'' (ERE) and ``perl''.
+``basic,'' (BRE) ``extended'' (ERE) and ``perl'' (PCRE).
 In GNU @command{grep},
 there is no difference in available functionality between the basic and
 extended syntaxes.
-- 
2.4.6

bug#22911: Minor doc changes to clarify the use of multiple -e,-f

2016-03-04 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón 
Hi,

Please consider this patch to clarify the use of multiple -e and -f
options in grep. I think the current documentation is inconsistent with
grep behaviour and POSIX man page for grep.

This patch is intended to close another long-standing bug reported in
Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/356120

Cheers,

Santiago
>From 3e6c7dbb30aa51c08d5b5fd8143051055dc26a43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Santiago=20Ruano=20Rinc=C3=B3n?= 
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:52:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc/ multiple -e,-f arguments

---
 doc/grep.in.1 | 16 ++--
 doc/grep.texi |  6 --
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1
index ade11b4..4713228 100644
--- a/doc/grep.in.1
+++ b/doc/grep.in.1
@@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ grep, egrep, fgrep \- print lines matching a pattern
 .B grep
 .RI [ OPTIONS ]
 .RB [ \-e
-.I PATTERN
-|
-.B \-f
-.IR FILE ]
+.IR PATTERN ].\|.\|.
+.RB [ \-f
+.IR FILE ].\|.\|.
 .RI [ FILE .\|.\|.]
 .
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -110,8 +109,10 @@ may warn of unimplemented features.
 Use
 .I PATTERN
 as the pattern.
-This can be used to specify multiple search patterns,
-or to protect a pattern beginning with a hyphen
+Multiple
+.BR \-e
+can be used to specify different search patterns.
+This option is also useful to protect a pattern beginning with a hyphen
 .RB ( \- ).
 .TP
 .BI \-f " FILE" "\fR,\fP \-\^\-file=" FILE
@@ -119,6 +120,9 @@ Obtain patterns from
 .IR FILE ,
 one per line.
 The empty file contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing.
+Multiple
+.BR \-f
+can be used to specify different files.
 .TP
 .BR \-i ", " \-\^\-ignore\-case
 Ignore case distinctions in both the
diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi
index 8883b27..1ad31c7 100644
--- a/doc/grep.texi
+++ b/doc/grep.texi
@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ This version number should be included in all bug reports.
 @opindex --regexp=@var{pattern}
 @cindex pattern list
 Use @var{pattern} as the pattern.
-This can be used to specify multiple search patterns,
-or to protect a pattern beginning with a @samp{-}.
+Multiple @option{-e} can be used to specify different search patterns.
+This option is also useful  to protect a pattern beginning with a
+@samp{-}.
 (@option{-e} is specified by POSIX.)
 
 @item -f @var{file}
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ or to protect a pattern beginning with a @samp{-}.
 @cindex pattern from file
 Obtain patterns from @var{file}, one per line.
 The empty file contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing.
+Multiple @option{-f} can be used to specify different files.
 (@option{-f} is specified by POSIX.)
 
 @item -i
-- 
2.4.6

bug#22899: new snapshot available: grep-2.23.7-9e28

2016-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering 
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Assaf Gordon  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 03/03/2016 08:57 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> grep snapshot:
>>http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.23.7-9e28.tar.xz
>
>
> No failures (with minimal build, no pcre) on:
>   CentOS 7 + 6.5,   amd64
>   Ubuntu 14.04,   amd64
>   Ubuntu 15.04   amd64 + i686
>   openSUSE 42.1, 13.1,   amd64
>   Fedora 23, 22, 21,   amd64
>   Debian 8.1, 7.6,   amd64
>   Trisquel 7.0, 6.0.1,   amd64
>Fedora-21, ppc64le
>   Fedora-20, ppc64
>   Ubuntu-14, aarch64
>
>   OpenBSD 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, amd64
>   FreeBSD 10.1, 9.3,   amd64
>   NetBSD 6.1.4,   amd64
>   NetBSD 7.0,   amd64 (though one gnulib test fails to compile, similar to
> this:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00083.html ).
>   AIX-7.1,power7
>   GNU Hurd 0.7,   i686
>   Debian-7/kFreeBSD-9,  amd64
>   OpenSolaris 5.10/5.11 on i86pc and suv4u/sub4v
>
> On Minix 3.3.0, one test fails ('symlink'), same as mentioned here (with
> decision not to fix):
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2016-01/msg00050.html

Hi Assaf,
Thank you for testing with that impressive menagerie.

bug#22899: new snapshot available: grep-2.23.7-9e28

2016-03-04 Thread Assaf Gordon 

Hello,

On 03/03/2016 08:57 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:

grep snapshot:
   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.23.7-9e28.tar.xz


No failures (with minimal build, no pcre) on:
  CentOS 7 + 6.5,   amd64
  Ubuntu 14.04,   amd64
  Ubuntu 15.04   amd64 + i686
  openSUSE 42.1, 13.1,   amd64
  Fedora 23, 22, 21,   amd64
  Debian 8.1, 7.6,   amd64
  Trisquel 7.0, 6.0.1,   amd64
 
  Fedora-21, ppc64le

  Fedora-20, ppc64
  Ubuntu-14, aarch64

  OpenBSD 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, amd64
  FreeBSD 10.1, 9.3,   amd64
  NetBSD 6.1.4,   amd64
  NetBSD 7.0,   amd64 (though one gnulib test fails to compile, similar to this:
 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00083.html ).
  AIX-7.1,power7
  GNU Hurd 0.7,   i686
  Debian-7/kFreeBSD-9,  amd64
  OpenSolaris 5.10/5.11 on i86pc and suv4u/sub4v

On Minix 3.3.0, one test fails ('symlink'), same as mentioned here (with 
decision not to fix):
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2016-01/msg00050.html


regards,
 - assaf

bug#22899: new snapshot available: grep-2.23.7-9e28

2016-03-04 Thread Shlomi Fish 
Hi Jim,

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 17:57:05 -0800
Jim Meyering  wrote:

> I'm ready to make a new bug-fix release of grep, so
> am making this test release. I plan to release grep-2.24
> within the next few days, so if you can build and test,
> please let us know how that goes.
> 

the test suite gives me:


Testsuite summary for GNU grep 2.23.7-9e28

# TOTAL: 138
# PASS:  129
# SKIP:  9
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0


on Mageia Linux x86-64 v6/Cauldron.

Is there anything else that I can do for you?

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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