From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: Test failures in t4034 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:36:02 +0200 Message-ID: <50315C42.5060403@kdbg.org> References: <80B6C6EE-130C-48C3-BBBB-5FCD1E7EFDEF@gernhardtsoftware.com> <5030FD49.6060704@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Gernhardt , Git List , Thomas Rast To: Ramsay Jones X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 19 23:36:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T3DAx-0007d6-Kz for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:36:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752170Ab2HSVgI (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:36:08 -0400 Received: from bsmtp4.bon.at ([195.3.86.186]:13824 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200Ab2HSVgH (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:36:07 -0400 Received: from dx.sixt.local (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F8313004D; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:36:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.sixt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B3A19F3C6; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:36:02 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <5030FD49.6060704@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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