Subject: Re: bug#21700: new snapshot available: grep-2.21.78-7da30

From: Gary Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 01:51:52 -0700

On 2015-10-17, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I want to release grep-2.22 in just a couple of days.
> This release is motivated largely by the discovery that there has
> been a bug in versions 2.19, 2.20 and 2.21 that made grep mistakenly
> print some lines that did not match. However, there have also been
> several other bug fixes and notable performance improvements.
> 
> Any testing you can do would be most welcome.
> Feedback, even the report that you "built and passed tests on XYZ,"
> would be appreciated.
> 
> grep snapshot:
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz      1.3 MB
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.21.78-7da30.tar.xz

I built the snapshot on two systems, a fairly old one running Ubuntu
10.04.4 and a newer one running an up-to-date Linux Mint 17.2.
'make check' reported the same two failures on both:

    XFAIL: backref-alt
    XFAIL: triple-backref

Regards,
Gary