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Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
Cc: 16380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16380: Failing tests on Solaris in 2.16
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:20:49 -0800

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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two failing tests for GNU grep 2.16 on Solaris 10 Sparc with Sun Studio 12:
>   http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~dam/grep-2.16-test-suite.log
>
> Both boil down to the error
>
>   + /bin/sh ere.script
>   ere.script: syntax error at line 3: `status=$’ unexpected
>
> generated from bre.awk using the bashism
>
>   printf ("status=$(echo '%s' | { grep -e '%s' > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $? ; })\n",$3, $2);

Hi Dago,
Thanks for the report.
Does the attached patch fix it for you?

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