Re: Build success for 3.4.3-rc0 on Linux, Kubuntu 10.04

[Rik]

On 09/30/2011 08:10 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 30-Sep-2011, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> | In the short term, we could restore the test for POSIX regex functions
> | to configure.ac (but without disabling PCRE if they are found) and
> | make this work again, or we could just let it slide since this is
> | likely a very seldom-used option to the clear function and we have
> | seen no reports about it.  Probably very few people even know about it
> | and fewer people use it.
>
> I guess I was wrong about the no reports about it, since we just
> received one this morning about this absolutely critical feature...
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34440
>
> But seriously, I don't think this is terribly important.  Using
> globbing patterns with clear still works (and doesn't require a
> special option to the clear function), and how many people really need
> the full power of regular expressions in this context?
It never rains, but it pours.  Who would have thought that the issue would
actually come up on the day we found it?  I also don't care strongly about
this so I vote for letting it slide until 3.6. 

On the positive side, that means a Mac OS, several Linux, and a MinGW build
have all been successful.  The remaining outstanding configuration is
Cygwin build.

--Rik
> jwe
>