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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Richard Lloyd <richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:25:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeg3tl4gj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f43a2f1-5d7e-3a2e-5a83-40e92ab0d7b5@connectinternetsolutions.com> (Richard Lloyd's message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2016 10:15:49 +0100")

Richard Lloyd <richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com> writes:

> git ships with a compat/regex tree containing a recent regex
> release, presumably with the intention of allowing systems with
> either no regex or an old regex installed to use the newer compat
> version.

Quick question.  Does NO_REGEX help?  cf. Makefile

# Define NO_REGEX if your C library lacks regex support with REG_STARTEND
# feature.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06  9:15 Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file Richard Lloyd
2016-10-06 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-10-06 19:11 ` Jeff King
2016-10-07 15:45   ` Richard Lloyd
2016-10-07 16:06     ` Jeff King

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