Re: grep 2.5 build problem on QNX 6.2

[Stepan Kasal]

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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:00:41 -0400
From: David Wolfe <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: grep 2.5 build problem on QNX 6.2
To: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
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I played around with this some more and discovered a couple of things:

- The grep-2.5.1 CVS source compiles cleanly and *all* tests from 'make check'
  pass on Red Hat 6.2, Red Hat 7.3, and QNX 6.2.  (Well, aside from the minor
  workaround I mentioned on QNX where I had to replace CHAR_CLASS_MAX_LENGTH
  on line 3197 in regex.c with '256'.)
  
- Since RH 7.3 comes with glibc 2.2, the build won't use the included regex
  files unless you tell it to.  Regardless of whether I specified the
  '--with-included-regex' switch to configure, the CVS sources compiled cleanly
  on RH 7.3, and all tests were successful.

- On all three platforms mentioned above, the 'Bond' test fails when I try to
  incorporate the regex sources from glibc CVS.
  
So, it appears that something is wrong with either:

1) the way I attempted to incorporate the new regex files,
   
  or

2) the regex files in glibc CVS themselves

If I find the time, perhaps I'll grab the source RPM for the specific version
of glibc that comes with RH 7.3 and try to copy those files into grep-2.5.1 in
the same manner...

Regards,

- Dave

P.S.  If you think these last few messages would be of interest to the grep
mailing list, can you forward them for me?  (I'm not sure where I should send
such things...)


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