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diff --git a/chapter06/grep.xml b/chapter06/grep.xml index 2111da256..22d65df95 100644 --- a/chapter06/grep.xml +++ b/chapter06/grep.xml @@ -41,14 +41,17 @@ <title>Installation of Grep</title> <para>The current Grep package has many bugs, especially in the support of - multibyte locales. RedHat fixed some of them with the following patch:</para> + multibyte locales. The following consolidated patch from Debian fixes some of them, + improves the number of individual tests which are passed, and much improves the + speed in UTF-8 locales:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&grep-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&grep-debian-patch;</userinput></screen> - <para>In order for the tests added by this patch to pass, the permissions for - the test file have to be changed:</para> + <para>Upstream have fixed some of the documentation, and changed some of the + tests and the expected results in the newest test scripts. This means that + not so many of the individual tests fail:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="pre">chmod +x tests/fmbtest.sh</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&grep-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> <para>Prepare Grep for compilation:</para> @@ -60,7 +63,14 @@ <para>To test the results, issue:</para> -<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput remap="test">make check || true</userinput></screen> + + <para>There are known test failures in the <command>foad1.sh</command> and + <command>fmbtest.sh</command> tests. The "|| true" construct is + used to avoid build automated build scripts failing due to the test failures. + A good run will show 2 failures from 14 tests, but if you look at the + output you will see in excess of forty individual tests which failed - these + are all in the new tests added since the previous version.</para> <para>Install the package:</para> |