[gcc] FYI, libffi FAILs with cygwin snapshot 20100205, 20100207 & 20100210...

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 11 15:39, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Gio 11/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
> > On Feb 11 07:40, Christian Joensson
> > wrote:
> > > >> Test Run By chj on Wed Feb 10 11:39:41 2010
> > > > 115,118c115,118
> > > > < 7 8. 9 1 9. 3: 8 17. 12
> > > > < res: 8 17. 12
> > > > < 7 8. 9 1 9. 3: 8 17. 12
> > > > < res: 8 17. 12
> > > > ---
> > > >> 7 8 9 1 9 3: 8 17 12
> > > >> res: 8 17 12
> > > >> 7 8 9 1 9 3: 8 17 12
> > > >> res: 8 17 12
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Note the crept in "." (dot) which is symptomatic
> > for the situation...
> > > > if this rings a bell in anyone's ear?
> > > 
> > > well, maybe this never shows up on cygwin developers'
> > list.. but
> > > 
> > > 20100204 works... 20100205 doesn't...
> > 
> > That's the same observation Marco made in
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00257.html
> > and it points to a problem in the new, multibyte-aware
> > regex imported
> > from FreeBSD.
> 
> Autom4te::Channels::msg('obsolete.'
>                                  ^
> also in my case a extra dot is the likely problem.

Ok, but when and where did it creep in?  What's the original search
pattern, what's the string to search?  And at which point did the dot
show up?


Corinna

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