Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:04:24 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, tjr@freebsd.org Subject: replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version Message-ID: <200609202304.25537@aldan>
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A recent discussion on the gm4 and gnulib mailing lists over the merits of gm4's bundling of its own regex implementation has produced the suggestion, that we replace our src/gnu/lib/libregex (which is currently obtained from fedora-glibc-2_3_4-21) with gnulib's implementation. The latter is claimed to be more actively maintained and with more bug fixes, than glibc people have managed to incorporate. Does anyone have a strong preference for fedora/glibc implementation currently in use, or should we follow this advice (source -- regex' maintainer for gnulib -- CC-ed) and switch over? -mi From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:47:01 -0700 Message-ID: <87y7seayoa.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> > :-( Are there regex-patches currently waiting to be merged into GNU's libc? You can just do a diff between glibc and regex to find the list of patches. They aren't marshaled into a coherent set of small patches, which is the bottleneck. However, you _can_ just use the gnulib version, which is a popular option. [...]
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