Re: [bug-gnulib] upgrade the regex module

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

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.

AFAIK, GNU libc doesn't have such symbol.  I was told that I can test
the glibc version by running /lib/libc.so.6 but that's not usable when
cross compiling.

Do you think that it would be a good idea to put such symbol into regex.h?

Thanks,
        Stepan Kasal