Re: 5.2.0: test suite is failing in regex3minus unit

[arnold]

Hi.

Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 19:43, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> > That error looks like what comes out of an earlier version
> > of gawk on that test.  Are you sure you ran the 5.2.0 binary
> > on it?
> >
>
> This is result of "make check".
> If you are suggesting that for some reason test suite is not using
> gawk binary from build tree but system installed that could be bug in test
> suite.

So, this is weird.  The only way I could see this happening is if
gawk linked against the regex routines in libc instead of against
the code that comes in the distribution.  Does 'nm gawk' give any
helpful clues?

For me the test runs without problems on Ubuntu 18, 20, and 22.

Thanks,

Arnold