Re: syncing regcomp.c with glibc, or further diverging, or applying patches separately.

[Paul Eggert]

Konstantin Serebryany wrote:
> But some patches are not applied to Gnulib:
> e.g. in Glibc's commit 39a12f8db4656bec88ebd51e524778ef2e5468b9 or
> 8c0ab919f63dc03a420751172602a52d2bea59a8

That's only because we haven't synced from glibc to gnulib since August.

> Do you have a suggestion regarding the patch discussed in
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-09/msg00663.html?
> The patch does not lead to a functionality change, but affects the
> sources significantly (560 line diff)
>
> Is that ok to apply it only to Glibc?
> Or would you like to have it for Gnulib too?

We'd apply it for Gnulib too, as we prefer to keep the sources in sync as much 
as possible.  That patch applies only to "#ifdef _LIBC" code, right?  So Gnulib 
users shouldn't care about the change anyway.