Re: no regular expressions in less

[Marco Atzeri via Cygwin]

On 21.07.2021 19:43, Basin Ilya via Cygwin wrote:

Hi list.
I've just noticed that regexp search works identically to exact match search in 
less and it prints this:

     $ /usr/bin/less --version
     less 581.2 (no regular expressions)
     Copyright (C) 1984-2021  Mark Nudelman

less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

     For information about the terms of redistribution,
     see the file named README in the less distribution.
     Home page: https://greenwoodsoftware.com/less

How to solve this?

Hi Basin,

it seems missing for the 32bit version,
on 64bit it is present.

$ less --version
less 581.2 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
Copyright (C) 1984-2021  Mark Nudelman

But for both the library is present

$ cygcheck -cd |grep "pcre.*devel"
libpcre-devel                           8.45-1
libpcre2-devel                          10.37-1

let me investigate why the 32bit has such issue.

Regards
Marco

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