On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:56:56PM -0800, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
This patch deletes the configure code to check the OS implementation of
regex and default to that. The default will now always be the builtin.
2003-01-27 Martin M. Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
* configure.in: Revert check for system regex. Use builtin regex by
default.
* configure: Rebuilt.
I'm still not convinced this is a good idea.
Context: it's a bug in the system's GNU C library, and should be fixed
as such. All the rest of us who have a version of glibc which has this
issue addressed don't have a problem, and I don't really want to carry
around yet another statically linked copy of regex if I don't need to.
Since it doesn't manifest on my system, I suspect it is fixed in glibc
2.3.1; it's another piece of fallout from Red Hat's choice of using the
brand-new barely-tested glibc 2.2.93 for their desktop product.
There are several choices here: