replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version

[Andrey Chernov]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Any news on this?

I basically look at locale stuff, they sypport multibyte which is good.

Someone must test its compatibility with GNU regex and understand in 
details nature of their changes/fixes/differences. Without this work we 
can't blindly replace stable code with unknown one just for reason it is 
actively maintained.

> > 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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