From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 3 7:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cantor.boolean.net (cantor.boolean.net [209.133.111.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D5914C8B for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org) Received: from gypsy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cantor.boolean.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA74709 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 15:47:12 GMT (envelope-from Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990403074908.00977100@localhost> X-Sender: guru@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 07:49:08 -0800 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" Subject: GNU regex (Was: egcs knob and objective C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:32 PM 4/2/99 -0600, Jacques Vidrine wrote: >On 2 April 1999 at 22:25, Doug Rabson wrote: >> We should also consider installing libbfd. If and when we bring in a newer >> version of gdb, it would be a good idea to avoid importing yet another >> version of libiberty and libbfd. > >... and GNU regex. If you mean a version of regex included in the LGPL'ed libc, yes, then this point might be mute. However, if you mean the regex/rx distributions, please, no. GNU regex and GNU rx distributions are both under the GPL. Henry Spencer's regex has a promiscious license. Even if a LGPL'ed distribution was available, I wouldn't recommend switching without a significant and demonstrated technical advantage. I've found that each implementation is even with the others. I would suggest GNU regex be made ports unless some base application required the -lgnuregex. Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message