Re: findutils-4.2.29 check failure (iregex1)

[James Youngman]

On 2/24/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ok, I think the problem here is either the gnulib/lib/Makefile* or an
> interaction between them and configure: after starting again from a freshly
> unpacked tarball and issuing:
>   ./configure 2>&1 | tee configure.log
>   make 2>&1 | tee make.log
> I can see:
[...]
> I assume the intention is that if the re_compile_pattern probe fails, the
> regex support in gnulib/lib should be compiled and linked in instead of
> allowing it to be provided by the installed libraries. The fact that
> doesn't happen would appear to be the proximate cause of the test failure.
>
> I don't know much about debugging at this level, but I can't see any way
> that the effect of setting "ac_use_included_regex" in configure actually
> gets propagated anywhere, and 'grep -i regex config.status' matches nothing.
> Suggestions for a next step would be appreciated.

I recently made a related fix in the CVS repository.   See
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17861.  What happens if you try building
from CVS?