Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin

[arjen@yaph.org (Arjen Laarhoven)]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:03:05AM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote:
> 2008/9/7 Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org>
> > The standard libc regex library on OSX does not support alternation
> > in POSIX Basic Regular Expression mode.  This breaks the diff.funcname
> > functionality on OSX.
> >
> > Also, I'm sure the problem occurs on more non-Linux systems (or non
> > GNU libc systems).  If people who have access to those systems (BSD's,
> > HP-UX, AIX, etc) can test it, I'd be happy to add those systems to the
> > patch so it can fix for multiple systems at once.
> 
> I can confirm that the issue shown up by your new testcase is also
> present in AIX 5.3.

Ok, I'll add AIX to the fix and a Tested-by: line.

[snip]

> Adding -lcompat/regex to COMPAT_CFLAGS as per your Darwin hunk
> provokes lots of warnings:

I think your problem is a lowercase ell instead of an uppercase i ;-)

Arjen

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