On 09/17/2010 01:01 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
So, you're saying that all the features in the gnulib version of GNU
regex have been in glibc for sufficiently long that I am very unlikely
ever to use a system with a sufficiently old version of glibc that it
is lacking a feature (e.g. a particular sy
On 15 September 2010 02:43, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Reuben,
>
>> #include "regex.h"
>> uses the included regex.h, not the system one.
>
> Yes.
>
>> There are obvious potential problems with this: if the
>> ABI changes you could end up with a header that doesn't match the
>> linked code, and even
Hi Reuben,
> #include "regex.h"
> uses the included regex.h, not the system one.
Yes.
> There are obvious potential problems with this: if the
> ABI changes you could end up with a header that doesn't match the
> linked code, and even without that you can end up thinking you have
> features (e.
Even when configure detects a working system regex, or
--without-included-regex is used,
#include "regex.h"
(which is what gnulib tells you to use) uses the included regex.h, not
the system one. There are obvious potential problems with this: if the
ABI changes you could end up with a header that
