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. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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