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

[Nick Treleaven]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:30:00 +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.

They're not the same, the diff is significant.

I think we should use the CTags version.

> I also changed some symbol name in the regex
> sources because of a conflict with some symbol in my system header
> files.

What's the conflicting symbol?

Regards,
Nick