bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: 2014-11-08 20:19 GMT-08:00 Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net: On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: hex_printf_() { hex_printf_format=$(printf '%s\n' $1 | sed ' s/^/_/

bug#18987: Fwd: bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Forwarding to the bug tracking system: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net Date: Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:23 AM Subject: Re: bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap To: Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jim

bug#19000: portability is hard: don't assume zh_CN.UTF-8 is installed

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
While testing, I happened to use a system for which that locale was not installed, and that made the word-multibyte test fail. Here's the patch I'm about to push: 0002-tests-do-not-fail-when-the-zh_CN.UTF-8-locale-is-not.patch Description: Binary data

bug#19005: new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Testing the first snapshot exposed several problems, and most have been addressed. The sole remaining problem is the failure of an expensive (not run by default: big-match) that makes most systems run out of memory. I haven't looked at it yet. Thanks to all who have helped so far, this snapshot

bug#19005: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Assaf Gordon assafgor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On 11/09/2014 04:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Testing the first snapshot exposed several problems, and most have been addressed. The sole remaining problem is the failure of an expensive (not run by default:

bug#19005: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

2014-11-09 Thread Assaf Gordon
On 11/09/2014 05:30 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: On 11/09/2014 04:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: Testing the first snapshot exposed several problems, and most have been addressed. The sole remaining problem is the failure of an expensive (not run by default: big-match) that makes most systems run out

bug#19005: new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

2014-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jim Meyering wrote: Testing the first snapshot exposed several problems, and most have been addressed. The sole remaining problem is the failure of an expensive (not run by default: big-match) that makes most systems run out of memory. I haven't looked at it yet. Thanks to all who have helped

bug#19005: new snapshot available: grep-2.20.83-06900

2014-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: ... grep snapshot: http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.83-06900.tar.xz [no failure on any of 3 LFS systems] Great. Thanks for the testing and report.