Subject: Re: bug#63150: quilt tests fail

From: Josselin Poiret <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:23:11 +0200

Hi Jack,

Jack Hill <[email-masked]> writes:

> The check phase or quilt (below) currently fails (guix commit 
> aecc6e70587f8412cbbb9b2c13141de4f534518e). Maybe something with newer grep 
> from core-updates? I'm not sure yet (which is why there is no patch 😁).
> [...]
> [44] $ quilt patches -- /dev/null dev/null null --- -- failed
> grep: warning: stray \ before /       != ~

Yes, apparently grep 3.8 now warns when characters that don't need to be
escaped are, since it is UB according to POSIX.  Maybe quilt has
resolved the issue upstream and needs to be updated?

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret