comment #1:

> Oh, I see I independently reported the bug and proposed a more-complete patch in patch #10202. Sorry about the duplication.

JFTR, the correct number is patch #10282

Tests fail with GNU grep 3.8 due to a new warning introduced to stderr: Regular expressions with stray backslashes now cause warnings


[ 1902s] ./link-order.at:106: if $EGREP relinking stderr; then
[ 1902s]          $EGREP " -L.*\/new\/lib -lb -L.*\/old\/lib -lcee" stdout
[ 1902s]        else :; fi
[ 1902s] --- /dev/null 2022-09-04 15:44:09.608000000 +0000
[ 1902s] +++ /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libtool-2.4.7/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/66/stderr 2022-09-04 15:50:25.548000000 +0000
[ 1902s] @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
[ 1902s] +/usr/bin/grep: warning: stray \ before /
[ 1902s] +/usr/bin/grep: warning: stray \ before /
[ 1902s] +/usr/bin/grep: warning: stray \ before /
[ 1902s] +/usr/bin/grep: warning: stray \ before /
[ 1902s] stdout:
[ 1902s] libtool: warning: relinking 'src/liba.la'
[ 1902s] libtool: relink: gcc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  src/.libs/a.o   -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libtool-2.4.7/tests/testsuite.dir/066/new/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libtool-2.4.7/tests/testsuite.dir/066/old/lib -L/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libtool-2.4.7/tests/testsuite.dir/066/new/lib -lb -L/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libtool-2.4.7/tests/testsuite.dir/066/old/lib -lcee  -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -g   -Wl,-soname -Wl,liba.so.0 -o src/.libs/liba.so.0.0.0
[ 1902s] wrong link order
[ 1902s] 66. link-order.at:27: 66. Link order test (link-order.at:27): FAILED (link-order.at:106)

Patch tested with 3.7 and 3.8:

From 1e13a1944f725ccc24bce1a2fa6f9009ba8a2270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 22:24:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests/link-order.at: avoid warning and test failure with GNU
 grep 3.8

---
 tests/link-order.at | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/link-order.at b/tests/link-order.at
index 3f01a00d..a145347f 100644
--- a/tests/link-order.at
+++ b/tests/link-order.at
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ aix* | interix*) ;;  # These systems have different path syntax
   case $hardcode_direct$hardcode_direct_absolute in
   yesno)
     AT_CHECK([if $EGREP relinking stderr; then
-         $EGREP " .*\/new\/lib/libb$shared_ext .*\/old\/lib/libcee$shared_ext" stdout
+         $EGREP " .*/new/lib/libb$shared_ext .*/old/lib/libcee$shared_ext" stdout
        else :; fi], [0], [ignore], [], [echo "wrong link order"])
     ;;
   *)
     AT_CHECK([if $EGREP relinking stderr; then
-         $EGREP " -L.*\/new\/lib -lb -L.*\/old\/lib -lcee" stdout
+         $EGREP " -L.*/new/lib -lb -L.*/old/lib -lcee" stdout
        else :; fi], [0], [ignore], [], [echo "wrong link order"])
     ;;
   esac
--
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