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Re: [bug-gnulib] upgrade the regex module
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Stepan Kasal |
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Re: [bug-gnulib] upgrade the regex module |
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Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:28:57 +0100 |
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Hello,
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:40:21PM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:08:41PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:51:30AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > be to test for the latest problem or two that Paolo Bonzini has fixed.
> >
> > instead of testing for a problem, we could simply check that the
> > system regex is new enough. I can imagine that regex.h would
> > #define a symbol which would contain the date of last modification.
>
> The Autoconf philosophy is to check for system features, not for
> system versions. [...]
yes, this sounds good.
But in practice, it means we cannot just pick one of the latest bug:
we have to pick a bug which was present there throughout the whole history
of the new regex. To be exact, we need a set of bugs covering the whole
history...
Well, as this is too hard, we should settle with a recent bug anyway...
Stepan