[Geany-devel] What's the point of compiling geany without regex support?

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:55:11 +1000, Lex wrote:

>On 14 August 2010 22:17, Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I started implementing the idea of indenting based on regular
>> expressions and have noticed that geany can be compiled without regex
>> support. Obviously in this case the indent thing wouldn't work. I
>> don't quite understand when someone would want to compile geany
>> without regex. By default in configure.ac you use the system regex
>> library. If it doesn't exist, geany is compiled without regex
>> support. Why not to automatically fallback to using the regex

If this is the case, it's a bug.
At least IIRC the shipped regex support should be used as fallback. But
I didn't use the autotools based build for ages.
Anyway, the idea always was to build against the system's regex
implementation if available and if not (like on Windows), fall back to
the shipped mini implementation.

The Waf based build system builds with the shipped mini implementation
if the --enable-gnu-regex option is given.
Otherwise it checks whether the system provides something usable and
uses this and if not, it uses the shipped variant.

If this doesn't work similar for the autotools, it's probably a bug.

Regards,
Enrico

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