Re: make check failed test

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> I'm building grep-2.6.1.tar.xz. This copy was downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org
> And verified:
> $ gpg --verify grep-2.6.1.tar.xz.sig
...
> FAIL: char-class-multibyte (exit: 1)
> ====================================
>
> --- out1-none   2010-03-27 13:00:17.000000000 +0100
> +++ exp1        2010-03-27 13:00:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +é
> --- out2-none   2010-03-27 13:00:17.000000000 +0100
> +++ exp2        2010-03-27 13:00:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +É

Thanks for the report.
That's failing because you lack a French UTF8 locale,
and the test did not handle that case properly.

It's fixed by this patch:

    tests: avoid spurious test failure due to lack of a French UTF8 locale
    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=189913f75b39f3

Though note that there's a more serious bug that's been fixed
since 2.6.1:

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=54d55bba41f2ff316

and at least one other that hasn't been fixed in version control yet.