From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 17:14:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1DE16A4CE; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:14:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9550143D49; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iAIHEDcp043244; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:14:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:14:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ben Mesander Message-ID: <20041118171412.GC19265@dan.emsphone.com> References: <16795.57534.19299.407779@piglet.timing.com> <1100766407.3475.1.camel@starshine.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <16796.54189.894371.247346@piglet.timing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16796.54189.894371.247346@piglet.timing.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libregex library X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:14:17 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 18), Ben Mesander said: > Tim Robbins writes: > > What do you think src/lib/libc/regex is? > > Now that's a nice question. > > So why are there two regex libs? Because GNU programs expect to use the GNU regex, I suppose. The only apps that pull in libgnuregex are gdb, cvs, diff, and grep. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com