replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version

[Andrey Chernov]

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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