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Re: Binary grep t7008 known breakage vanished on Cygwin

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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date
Apr 18, 2016, 17:08 UTC
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<5715147F.7020609@ramsayjones.plus.com>
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On 18/04/16 16:21, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
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> t7008.12 is marked as an expected failure, but building Git on Cygwin
> including a `make configure && ./configure` step has the test
> unexpectedly passing.  Building without the configure step has the test
> failing as expected.
> 
> This appears to be behaviour specific to Cygwin; at least I get that
> test failing on my CentOS box regardless of whether I perform the
> configure step.

Yes, the configure sets NO_REGEX= whereas the config.mak.uname sets NO_REGEX=UnfortunatelyYes.

[Note that the regex bug (see t0070-fundamental.sh test #5) now seems to pass with the 'native' regex library]

ATB, Ramsay Jones

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