Re: dfa.c problems on MirBSD...

[Aharon Robbins]

> Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 13:34:57 +0200
> From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: dfa.c problems on MirBSD...
>
> On 04/30/2010 11:10 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > As part of testing gawk, Nelson Beebe builds it on a bunch of systems.
> > On MirBSD (which is some fringe BSD variant), the regx8bit test fails.
> > When gawk is run to bypass dfa, the test passes.
> >
> > Grep 2.6.3 does not pass all its tests on that system. The ones that
> > fail are:
> >
> > FAIL: test-mbrtowc3.sh
> > FAIL: test-mbsrtowcs3.sh
> > FAIL: test-wcrtomb.sh
> >
> > The following is a good way to reproduce the failure with grep:
> >
> > bash4.1$ echo -e 'a\xe5b' | grep $'\xe5'
> >
> > This prints nothing on MirBSD and prints the line on Linux.
>
> What's LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE or LANG on the two systems?  Can you try git 
> grep's dfa?
>
> Paolo

Current grep still fails there. Same tests fail, and echo test fails.

git itself does not build on that system. I made a tarball on my linux
system and copied it over and used that.  Please work on this with
Nelson.

Thanks,

Arnold