Subject: Re: bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 16:06:54 -0700

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 10/29/2014 02:29 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
>>    http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
>>    http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz
...
> On NetBSD 6.1.4, these fail:
>   XFAIL: equiv-classes
>   FAIL: symlink
>   FAIL: word-multibyte
> Attached is netbsd614.test-suite.log

Hi Assaf,

First, that "XFAIL" is an expected failure, not a test failure, per se.
The "word-multibyte" failure should be fixed by the patch I've already pushed.

However, I'll need more information to understand the "symlink" failure.
Normally the log file contains verbose output information (resulting
from init.sh's "set -x"), but on your NetBSD system, it appears not to
have been enabled, perhaps because that system's /bin/sh is
inadequate.  Can you rerun the tests using bash as your shell?  That
may be enough to evoke the log information that will highlight which
part(s) of the "symlink" test actually fail.