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Re: A patch for gnu-regex

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:44:16AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    > should be gdb_regex.h.
> 
>    Either way is fine with me. All I want is regex in glibc 2 :-). Any
>    objections?
> 
> Is this really important?  From an engineering standpoint introducing
> a dependency on glibc may not be the right thing.  I've seen a quite a
> few problems related to regex.h that were caused by getting out of
> sync with glibc.  I'd prefer not to add this to GDB 5.0.
> 

How about I add a switch --enable-gdb-regex so that you can still
use the regex in gdb even if you have glibc 2? I believe the C
library is the foundation for everything. You should make sure
it works correctly first.


H.J.
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