GNU bug report logs - #29446
GNU grep 3.1 fails test suite when PCRE lacks JIT

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Package: grep;

Reported by: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox <at> adelielinux.org>

Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 29446-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox <at> adelielinux.org>, 29446-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU grep 3.1 fails test suite when PCRE lacks JIT
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 16:10:41 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 1/2/20 1:47 PM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> I managed to reproduce the error using pure Debian:

Thanks, with that recipe I reproduced the problem on Ubuntu 18.04.5, and 
installed the attached. I'll boldly close the bug report.

libpcre is quite a pain to use, and makes 'grep' less reliable. Perhaps somebody 
with some time could see whether libpcre2 is any better.

[0001-grep-fix-PCRE-JIT-test-when-JIT-not-available.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-grep-fix-logic-for-growing-PCRE-JIT-stack.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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