On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:09:02PM -0400, Caleb Zulawski wrote:
> 
> Isn’t this test too strict, then?

It shouldn't had been included with the release; the attached patch
should help with that for future releases.

> Or is there some way to disable/allow failure for this particular test?

In your build process you could force to skip by doing :

  echo "exit 77" > gnulib-tests/test-mbrlen5.sh

> It seems like it should not prevent a build.

it does not; the build finished, and the tests for grep finished successfully
as well.

if you read your log output, will see this is part of the gnulib tests.

Carlo