GNU bug report logs - #18892
few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'

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Message #29 received at 18892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18892: few test failure with 'grep-2.20.72-d512'
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:48:53 -0700

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com> wrote:
...
>>>    http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.20.72-d512.tar.xz
...
> Linux From Scratch 7.6
>
> configure and make were clean.
>
> $ env RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes make -k check
>
> big-match: skipped test: not enough main memory to run the test
> sjis-mb: skipped test: SJIS locale not found
>
> I do have 8G of memory.

That test fails when grep fails to allocate enough space to hold a 2GiB line.
No big deal, and not hard to imaging happening with a few applications
in 8GiB of RAM.

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