On 09/13/2010 11:20 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Note that the test is unconditionally XFAILed unless you use
--without-included-regex.
Using --without-included-regex is risky, because it tells grep
to use the libc-supplied regex functions, no matter how many
flaws they have -- flaws that would be avoided if it*did* use
the package-provided version.
Yes, that's why I preferred to push the gnulib change and avoid
mentioning --without-included-regex.
The problem with the gnulib regex module is that you have to balance the
features of the system regex, and the known stability of the gnulib
module. It's hard to do.
Paolo
