On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Jack Howarth
<howarth.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> The pcre-jitstack test case fails on Mac OS X due to the system base64
> expecting either '-D or --decode' rather than '-d or --decode'. The
> trivial fix is to use the common '--decode' option rather than '-d'...
>
> diff -uNr grep-2.25/tests/pcre-jitstack grep-2.25-patched/tests/pcre-jitstack
> --- grep-2.25/tests/pcre-jitstack       2016-01-01 17:45:41.000000000 -0500
> +++ grep-2.25-patched/tests/pcre-jitstack       2016-08-16
> 10:53:58.000000000 -0400
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>
>  fail=0
>
> -base64 -d >pcrejit.txt.gz <<'EOF'
> +base64 --decode >pcrejit.txt.gz <<'EOF'

Thank you for the report and the patch.
However, there are plenty of systems for which base64 --decode would
not work either, so I've done this, which should work on a superset:

    tests: avoid unnecessary "skip" without base64 -d support

    * tests/pcre-jitstack: Try harder to find a base64 decoder:
    Try 'base64 -d', 'base64 -D', 'openssl base64 -d' and perl's
    MIME::Base64 decode_base64.  The old code would skip at least on
    OS X, for which base64 expects -D or --decode.
    Reported by Jack Howarth in http://bugs.gnu.org/24243.