On 06/16/2011 10:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> To make this proposed change go through, that configure-time option would
> have to be eliminated, so that we always build with the gnulib-provided
> regex code. Of course, if glibc ever changes, we can detect that and
> automatically prefer it when possible.
For the record, at least Fedora's grep and sed both build
--without-included-regex, so would be affected.
I don't like the idea of removing the option, especially since
self-consistency is guaranteed. As to flipping the default, that's fine
by me (now :)), but I'd like to understand if there is a plan to add
glibc extensions that allow equivalence classes to be implemented in the
medium term.
Also, I would like to have glibc fix their bug with collating symbols
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11561 (with that fixed, I
can add support to grep for collating symbols!)
Paolo
