I've had this change sitting around for a while...
* m4/regex.m4: Update the description of the configure-time option,
--without-included-regex, to state accurately what the defaults are,
and perhaps to give people an idea why using this option is risky.
Index: m4/regex.m4
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RCS file: /sources/gnulib/gnulib/m4/regex.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -p -r1.63 regex.m4
--- m4/regex.m4 15 Feb 2007 00:16:55 -0000 1.63
+++ m4/regex.m4 24 Feb 2007 11:52:48 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#serial 45
+#serial 46
# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,
# 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_REGEX],
AC_ARG_WITH([included-regex],
[AC_HELP_STRING([--without-included-regex],
- [don't compile regex; this is the default on
+ [don't compile regex; this is the default on 32-bit
systems with recent-enough versions of the GNU C
- Library (use with caution on other systems)])])
+ Library (use with caution on other systems).
+ On systems with 64-bit ptrdiff_t and 32-bit int,
+ --with-included-regex is the default, in case
+ regex functions operate on very long strings (>2GB)])])
case $with_included_regex in #(
yes|no) ac_use_included_regex=$with_included_regex
