Many regex failures

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Jul 13 08:06:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:52:48PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > The CVS at 7pm PDT on July 12, "make check" failed in posix:
> > 
> > regexp: "[A-[.].]c]", string: "ab]!" -> no match, FAIL
> 
> OK, you scared me.  The FAILs you see are all expected.  Regex is
> simply that buggy.  I looked at all the failing tests once to see
> whether there is an easy fix and I haven't found any.
> 

It is a false alarm. When I recompiled it from scratch, "make check"
passed.


H.J.


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