GNU bug report logs - #15758
grep 2.15 calls abort() on larger searches with -P

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Dave Reisner <dreisner <at> archlinux.org>

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:40:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 15759

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 15758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>
Cc: 15758-done <15758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, 730472 <730472 <at> bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: bug#15758: grep 2.15 calls abort() on larger searches with -P
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:46:18 -0800

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> I have confirmed that grep linked with libpcre.a built from upstream
> sources [commit f9d3a72ea5e86a674a9836b462e1231ecce0d739] (8.34) also
> works the way I expect.

More data points: Fedora 20 and OS/X work both with pcre-8.33, so I
conclude this is a problem specific to some Debian-specific patch.

I expect to push that patch as-is and defer to a separate commit
(or maybe even skip altogether) any portability hack that might warn
or disable PCRE support when detecting the broken library.
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