Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 07:49:08 -0800 From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: GNU regex (Was: egcs knob and objective C) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990403074908.00977100@localhost>
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At 03:32 PM 4/2/99 -0600, Jacques Vidrine wrote: >On 2 April 1999 at 22:25, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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
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