Now that two gnulib-using packages are using grep's DFA matcher, I am going to move that code into gnulib, so there is one clear source of truth.
GNU sed began using dfa.[ch] very recently. While gawk has been copying grep's dfa.[ch] for a long time, it does not use gnulib. To that end, I've written both the add-to-gnulib patch and the use-from-grep patches and tested via grep's "make distcheck" and via this for gnulib: ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/x --with-tests --test dfa Note that this merely moves grep/src/dfa.[ch] to gnulib/lib/ and also moves the DFA-specific tests from grep/tests/. It does not add any new tests. I am in no great hurry to make the switch, and expect to wait at least for a few more pending patches by Norihiro Tanaka, syncing the result to gnulib before pulling the trigger. This is all the result of a couple of hours last night, so it's almost certainly not perfect. Feedback welcome.
From 594011bf91cf1a7fdbf81291ea55ce9f2f6455f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:02:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gnulib: update to latest --- gnulib | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib index b7bc3c1..4e9d041 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit b7bc3c1a4e78add4cbad39ae1a0c4fb0747b483f +Subproject commit 4e9d041cf9e3c9260da3169bcda6133a4f800347 -- 2.7.4
