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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:21:19 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 229925] [EXP-RUN] Disallow escaping ordinary characters in regex(3)
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--- Comment #7 from Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> ---
(In reply to Antoine Brodin from comment #6)

Right, and it turns out escaping its use in the :C modifier is not necessar=
y,
e.g. [1] removes the gratuitous escaping from these USES bits that caused t=
hat
particular breakage, and in theory works.

I'm doing some grep-work to see if I can pare down the amount of :C usage t=
hat
I need to whisk through to figure out what all breaks in the ports framewor=
k,
because it doesn't look as rampant as I had thought from some initial pokes.

Given that I don't quite have the resources to build the entire ports tree,=
 do
you happen to have a smaller set of ports that you would recommend trying to
build on my own as a basic lemon test before asking you to try again? Perha=
ps a
small set that flexes quite a bit of ports functionality.

[1] https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/escaped-colon.diff

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