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

[Jiří Techet]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 17:03, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:47:08 +0200
> Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Attached you'll find a patch that updates the regex library to the
>> latest version from glibc. This removes the warnings Lex was
>> experiencing on a 64bit machine. I looked at how ctags does it and
>> made the patch in a similar way.
>
> I'm not sure if the glibc version will build on Windows. I don't have a
> Windows build environment set up ATM to try it.
>
> It might be best to use the version from latest CTags. The
> gnu_regex/README.txt says:
> "Minor changes were made to eliminate compiler errors and warnings."
>
> Using the same version as CTags could potentially also prevent any
> regex-incompatibility bugs with CTags parsers.

As far as I remember the CTags version and the glibc version of regex
are basically the same. I also changed some symbol name in the regex
sources because of a conflict with some symbol in my system header
files.

Jiri

>
> Regards,
> Nick
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