bug#43527: [PATCH] grep: avoid unneeded compilation of regex

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 8:16 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 9/23/20 8:00 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Thank you, I expect to push it shortly, along with a gnulib-sync diff,
> > to pull in Paul's regex fixes.
>
> Ouch, it looks like we had dueling commits prepared, as I read your email just
> after pushing a more-extensive patch.

I noticed, but it wasn't a problem.
Thanks for all the work (from both you and Norihiro) that went into
those changes.

> I looked at Norihiro's recent "grep: fix a bug in the previous commit" patch
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/43527#28>. Although the test case added by that patch
> exposed a bug in Savannah grep before I installed the "grep: fix more
> Turkish-eyes bugs" patch just now, that test case works with current grep 
> master
> on Savannah (commit 8577dda638ebfee2b77342a4d07252745ec42a3a). This isn't
> surprising, as the "grep: fix more Turkish-eyes bugs" patch tests the same 
> thing
> plus some more stuff.
>
> It'd be good to have a different test case to demonstrate why the "grep: fix a
> bug in the previous commit" patch is needed to kwsearch.c. I'll take a look 
> at that.

I agree. Hoping to make the next snapshot soon, but not before
tomorrow (Thu) evening.