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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: Test failures in t4034
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:36:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50315C42.5060403@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5030FD49.6060704@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

Am 19.08.2012 16:50, schrieb Ramsay Jones:
> Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>> I've been getting a couple of test failures and finally had the
>> time to track them down.
>> 
>> t4034-diff-words fails tests "22 diff driver 'bibtex'" and "26 diff
>> driver 'html'".  Bisecting shows that the file started giving me
>> errors in commit 8d96e72 "t4034: bulk verify builtin word regex
>> sanity", which appears to introduce those tests.  I don't see
>> anything obviously wrong with the tests and I'm not familiar with
>> the diff-words code, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
>> 
>> I am running on OS X 10.8, with Xcode 4.4.1 (llvm-gcc 4.2.1).
> 
> I had the same problem (or at least it *looks* like the same problem)
> on Linux last year (May 2011), which turned out to be a bug in the
> regex routines in an old version of glibc.

I also had the same problem, but did not remember why I don't have it
anymore. Now that you mention it: It was the same situation and I came
to the same conclusion (old glibc, bogus regex implementation). I worked
it around with NO_REGEX=YesPlease in config.mak.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-19 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-18  6:03 Test failures in t4034 Brian Gernhardt
2012-08-19  6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]   ` <20449AC5-D068-46CF-B8C4-E0639FB92EF6@gernhardtsoftware.com>
2012-08-19 17:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-19 14:50 ` Ramsay Jones
2012-08-19 21:36   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-08-20  0:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-21 18:37     ` Ramsay Jones
2012-08-21 22:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-01 17:43         ` Ramsay Jones
2012-09-03  1:53           ` Junio C Hamano

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