On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:42:08AM -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote: > > I tried compiling the new test release at > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.5.4-20080209b.tar.gz with gcc 4.2.3 > > on CentOS 5. Two tests failed: foad1 and fmbtest. Since there are > > binary characters involved, I'll include the output as an attachment. > > On Mac OS X and on Debian all tests pass except fmbtest.sh is skipped. > > I confirm that these tests fail on CentOS 5, and same applies to > grep-2.5.4-20071119 (plus the recently commented out tests). > > I don't know what's different in CentOS 5 that's causing these tests to > fail. > > TAA > Silly suggestion - maybe your OS X and Debian boxes don't have the cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale installed ? That will certainly cause fmbtest to be skipped, and a quick look at foad1 shows it too will not run the remaining tests if the locale is missing (lines 137-140).
I see the cs_CZ.UTF-8 failures in foad1 on recent linuxfromscratch and derivatives, with pretty much the full set of locales installed, for 2.5.3 and 2.5.4-20080209b (glibc-2.6 and newer). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
