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new snapshot available: grep-2.20.72-d512

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 18888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#18888: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: grep-2.20.72-d512
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:43:55 -0700

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 12:29 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Thanks to many fixes and improvements by Paul Eggert and Norihiro Tanaka,
>> here is a pre-release snapshot:
>>
>> grep snapshot:
>>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.2 MB
>
> You probably want to fix your process for sending these mails;
> 'relevant-mailing-list <at> gnu.org' is not the best Reply-To: option :)

Good point.  Thanks.

> I tried an incremental build of grep.git, and it hung waiting for user
> input:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eblake/grep/doc'
> Updating ./version.texi
>   MAKEINFO grep.info
>   GEN      grep.1
> mv: try to overwrite 'grep.1', overriding mode 0444 (r--r--r--)?
>
> You probably want to fix that so that grep.1 (and egrep.1, fgrep.1)
> don't require user interaction.

Thank you for all the testing!
I've addressed the above issue with the attached patch:

[0001-build-generate-man-pages-even-when-existing-targets-.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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