Building problems with grep-2.5

[Michael Opdenacker]

Hi Akim,

Sorry about that! You're right: these issues were found building grep-2.5.
I built both tools yesterday and got confused why I reported these issues.

bison-1.34 works fine, thanks a lot!

Eventually, I found exactly the same issues on GNU / Linux (Red Hat 7.1)
and GNU / Solaris 8.

So, here's the right issue report:

  1. The tests/*.sh files don't have execute rights. This causes `make
     check' to fail:
     FAIL: warning.sh
     /bin/bash: ./khadafy.sh: Permission denied
  2. The Spencer bre test #16 failed. I can give you details if you wish.
  3. During `make install', linking egrep and fgrep to grep fails because
     these files already exist from a previous version (you can run `make
     install' twice)
     ln -s grep /usr/local/bin/egrep
     ln: `/usr/local/bin/egrep': File exists

Cheers,

    Michael.

> | Hi,
> | This is just to report a few problems I found building bison-1.34 in
> | GNU/Solaris 8. Note that no problem was found with GNU/Linux.
> |
> |   1. The tests/*.sh files don't have execute rights. This causes `make
> |      check' to fail:
> |      FAIL: warning.sh
> |      /bin/bash: ./khadafy.sh: Permission denied
> |   2. The Spencer bre test #16 failed on a GNU/ Sun Sparc Solaris 8
> |      system. I can give you details if you wish.
> |   3. During `make install' on the same Solaris 8 system, linking egrep
> |      and fgrep to grep fails because these files already exist from a
> |      previous version:
> |      ln -s grep /usr/local/bin/egrep
> |      ln: `/usr/local/bin/egrep': File exists
> |
> | These are not severe issues, as everything works fine on GNU/Linux!
> |
> | However, I can try to help in finding a clean solution to at least the
> | 1/ and 3/ issues, working on the autoconf and automake files, if you
> | wish.
>
> There is some confusion here.  I think you meant to report these
> issues to the GNU Grep people.

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