replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version
Mikhail Teterin
mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com
Wed Sep 20 20:04:29 PDT 2006
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?
-mi
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:47:01 -0700
Message-ID: <87y7seayoa.fsf at penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
> :-( Are there regex-patches currently waiting to be merged into GNU's libc?
You can just do a diff between glibc and regex to find the list of
patches. They aren't marshaled into a coherent set of small patches,
which is the bottleneck. However, you _can_ just use the gnulib
version, which is a popular option.
[...]
More information about the freebsd-current
mailing list