GNU bug report logs - #21082
grep 'make check' fails

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: grep 'make check' fails
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:11:49 -0500

099-grep-2.21:FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh
099-grep-2.21:# FAIL:  1
099-grep-2.21:FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh
099-grep-2.21:FAIL  test-update-copyright.sh (exit status: 1)
099-grep-2.21:# FAIL:  1

Actually the problem is not due to grep but gnulib and perl-5.22. 
However it is in the grep source tarball.

The one line (one character) fix is:

 sed -i 's/copyright{/copyright\\{/' build-aux/update-copyright

Translation:  Escape the left brace in a perl regex.

I reported this to gnulib over a month ago but got no response.  Thought 
you would like to know.

  -- Bruce Dubbs
     linuxfromscratch.org
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs <at> gmail.com>, 21082-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21082: grep 'make check' fails
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:21:51 -0700

Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>   sed -i 's/copyright{/copyright\\{/' build-aux/update-copyright
>
> Translation:  Escape the left brace in a perl regex.
>
> I reported this to gnulib over a month ago but got no response.

I missed that, but the problem was reported by someone else and was fixed here:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=841d0dcfa8103235836a1aeb0c1ad657f43ade85
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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