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

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:41:42 -0700

> 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

Thanks for building and reporting.
Each of those "XFAIL"s indicates an expected failure, so that is the
expected test result, for now.