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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-08-24 16:37:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2018-08-25 16:23:36 +0200 |
| commit | 8c8ded2cc9201e69e87999bb40ef09c6c868deb8 (patch) | |
| tree | af8b38bf0c12c9f9b322fedffc17b9163b46f3d2 | |
| parent | a8dcf6cec7c5ded4bd0967f00b9b502d7d66e5ef (diff) | |
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gnu: grep: Work around test failure with glibc 2.28.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (grep)[arguments]: Add phase 'disable-failing-tests'.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index 114413bafc..1c652bcce4 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ command-line arguments, multiple languages, and so on.") (arguments `(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-before 'check 'disable-failing-tests + (lambda _ + ;; These tests are expected to fail due to a glibc bug which has + ;; been fixed in 2.28, so they are unexpectedly passing. They + ;; should be fixed for grep versions > 3.1. + (substitute* "tests/Makefile.in" + (("^[[:blank:]]+backref-alt[[:blank:]]+\\\\") "\\") + (("^[[:blank:]]+triple-backref[[:blank:]]+\\\\") "\\")) + #t)) (add-after 'install 'fix-egrep-and-fgrep ;; Patch 'egrep' and 'fgrep' to execute 'grep' via its ;; absolute file name instead of searching for it in $PATH. |