Re: PCRE

2006-01-10 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Jeremy Herbison wrote: > I, and I'm guessing many others, build PCRE right before Grep in > chapter 6. I don't. I've never *built* pcre (though it was probably *installed* on most of the Mandrake setups I used to use, years ago). But then, I don't usually use Perl, so I don't really miss much w

Re: PCRE

2006-01-10 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 1/10/06, Jeremy Herbison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that Readline was added to LFS because: > 1) Bash can use it vs. its bundled readline functions. > 2) Lots of BLFS packages can link to it. Readline was added mainly for reason 1. Rather than link in the internal readline stat

Re: PCRE

2006-01-10 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:53:12PM -0700, Jeremy Herbison wrote: > I doubt this will go over well, but what the heck: > > I understand that Readline was added to LFS because: > 1) Bash can use it vs. its bundled readline functions. > 2) Lots of BLFS packages can link to it. > > I believe PCRE sho

Re: PCRE

2006-01-10 Thread Jason Gurtz
On 1/10/2006 14:53, Jeremy Herbison wrote: +1 I don't think I've ever run any machine except windows without this lib > p.s. Alternatively, could a note similar to Shadow's Cracklib tip > be added to Grep's instructions? +1 to this if there is hate and discontent. ~Jason -- -- http://linuxf

Re: PCRE Heap Overflow May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code

2005-08-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:23:40AM +0200, Dan Osterrath wrote: > >>http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Aug/1014744.html > > > Lovely. Right after a BLFS release. :( > > Bruce, are there going to be any attempts at maintaining an errata page > for BLFS? Not right now, bu