On 2015-10-17, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I want to release grep-2.22 in just a couple of days.
> This release is motivated largely by the discovery that there has
> been a bug in versions 2.19, 2.20 and 2.21 that made grep mistakenly
> print some lines that did not match. However, there have also been
> several other bug fixes and notable performance improvements.
>
> Any testing you can do would be most welcome.
> Feedback, even the report that you "built and passed tests on XYZ,"
> would be appreciated.
>
> grep snapshot:
> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz 1.3 MB
> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-ss.tar.xz.sig
> http://meyering.net/grep/grep-2.21.78-7da30.tar.xz
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
Regards,
Gary
