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