GNU bug report logs - #63533
test-mbrlen5.sh failure

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Caleb Zulawski <caleb.zulawski <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 04:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #27 received at 63533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Caleb Zulawski <caleb.zulawski <at> gmail.com>, 63533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63533: test-mbrlen5.sh failure
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 22:09:38 +0200

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 2:44 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
<carenas <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:09:02PM -0400, Caleb Zulawski wrote:
> >
> > Isn’t this test too strict, then?
>
> It shouldn't had been included with the release; the attached patch
> should help with that for future releases.

Thanks for looking into this, Carlo.

However, I think we should not limit the gnulib tests that are run via
grep just to accommodate systems with broken code, even when grep
happens not to exercise the broken code path.
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