Bugzilla Bug 63507

The test that failed:

# more /var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/tests/spencer1.script
status=`echo '-'| { ${GREP} -E -e '(*)b' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?; }`
if test $status -ne 1 ; then
        echo Spencer test \#55 failed
        failures=1
fi

The above URL contains a patch.

Output from the compile:

>>> Test phase [check]: sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r6
Making check in intl
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/intl'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/intl'
Making check in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/po'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/po'
Making check in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib'
Making check in posix
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib/posix'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib/posix'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/lib'
Making check in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/doc'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/doc'
Making check in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/src'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/src'
Making check in tests
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/tests'
make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grep-2.5.1-r6/work/grep-2.5.1/tests'

Please, do not be alarmed if some of the tests failed.
Report them to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>,
with the line number, the name of the file,
and grep version number 'grep --version'.
Make sure you have the word grep in the subject.
Thank You.

PASS: warning.sh
PASS: khadafy.sh
Spencer test #55 failed
FAIL: spencer1.sh
PASS: bre.sh
PASS: ere.sh
PASS: status.sh
PASS: empty.sh
PASS: options.sh

followed by a few more PASSes and an eventual fail.

emerge info:


Portage 2.0.51_pre20 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache cvs distcc maketest sandbox sign userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo             http://premium.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo               http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu              http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups encode ethereal fam fastcgi flash foomaticdb gd gif gphoto2 gtk gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde kerberos libgda libwww mad makecheck mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas nptl ntlm oggvorbis openal operanom2 pam pdflib perl php png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slp socks5 sox spell sse ssl svga tcltk tetex tiff truetype usb vhosts x86 xinerama xml xml2 xprint xv zlib"
Other URLs:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2003-02/msg00002.html
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2003-February/032543.html

Other grep patches while I'm here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=grep

could you attach a patch here which resolves the problem ?

it looks like that patch has already been applied to our grep-2.5.1-r6

this is still broken in 2.5.1-r5 and r6, probably others as well but i didn't
test them.  attached is a (very) simple patch for the ebuild.  i've tested it 
with r6 but since there's very little difference between revisions it should
work  with the rest.  this is my first patch,  so let me know if i got anything
wrong. :)

Created an attachment (id=44316) [edit]
spencer test patch

The attached patch makes grep pass all the tests with my computer. 

updated the expected test result like the LFS guys talk about rather than
forcing regex

use grep-2.5.1-r7