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Re: A patch for gnu-regex
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:44:16AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
> > should be gdb_regex.h.
>
> Either way is fine with me. All I want is regex in glibc 2 :-). Any
> objections?
>
> Is this really important? From an engineering standpoint introducing
> a dependency on glibc may not be the right thing. I've seen a quite a
> few problems related to regex.h that were caused by getting out of
> sync with glibc. I'd prefer not to add this to GDB 5.0.
>
How about I add a switch --enable-gdb-regex so that you can still
use the regex in gdb even if you have glibc 2? I believe the C
library is the foundation for everything. You should make sure
it works correctly first.
H.J.