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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:44:12 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, tjr@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version
Message-ID:  <20060921154412.GA59729@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200609202304.25537@aldan>
References:  <200609202304.25537@aldan>

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:04:24PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 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?

Please point to gnulib's regex sources to compare with.

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