I started my inquiry as a mere minor nuisance to my custom vim build script. Little did I realize that it was of far greater significance. Thanks for the report to the grep dev folk. There are some (many) utils where I always assume any upgrade is progress & safe. I sent an email to Patrick Volkerding of Slackware as well. Everyone needs to know about this before it ensnares the rest of the linux distro community.
Guido PS Had to go fix my entire /var/log/packages dir of spurious entries. Sheesh! PPS I wasted a lot of time going thru the vim configure bash script looking for a bug! (Intricate!!!!) On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > On 2016-11-13, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2016-11-13, Guido wrote: > > > > I found a post on LQ about this. It's affecting LOTS more stuff > > > than just vim. I reverted to grep-2.25 & will wait for the > > > upstream community to decide what to do. > > > > That seems like the best idea for now. > > > > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ > pkgtools-grep-bug-in-slackware%5B64%5D-current-4175593054/ > > > > Thanks for the link. That looks like a real bug to me. You'd think > > that having to change the regression test would have given the > > author of that change pause. > > > > I don't see anything that I recognize as that bug posted to the > > bug-grep list. > > P.S. > > I just sent a message to the bug-grep list with the above link. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/vim_dev/xNqPVzxtIfo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
