--- Gio 11/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > On Feb 11 17:04, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Feb 11 15:39, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > --- Gio 11/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > > > > On Feb 11 07:40, Christian Joensson > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Test Run By chj on Wed Feb 10 > 11:39:41 2010 > > > > > > 115,118c115,118 > > > > > > < 7 8. 9 1 9. 3: 8 17. 12 > > > > > > < res: 8 17. 12 > > > > > > < 7 8. 9 1 9. 3: 8 17. 12 > > > > > > < res: 8 17. 12 > > > > > > --- > > > > > >> 7 8 9 1 9 3: 8 17 12 > > > > > >> res: 8 17 12 > > > > > >> 7 8 9 1 9 3: 8 17 12 > > > > > >> res: 8 17 12 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Note the crept in "." (dot) which > is symptomatic > > > > for the situation... > > > > > > if this rings a bell in anyone's > ear? > > > > > > > > > > well, maybe this never shows up on > cygwin developers' > > > > list.. but > > > > > > > > > > 20100204 works... 20100205 doesn't... > > > > > > > > That's the same observation Marco made in > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00257.html > > > > and it points to a problem in the new, > multibyte-aware > > > > regex imported > > > > from FreeBSD. > > > > > > Autom4te::Channels::msg('obsolete.' > > > > > ^ > > > also in my case a extra dot is the likely > problem. > > > > Ok, but when and where did it creep in? What's > the original search > > pattern, what's the string to search? And at > which point did the dot > > show up?
unfortunately I don't speak perl and aclocal is a really massive script so I have no clue how catch the failing pattern. > > For a start, I just applied a patch to the new regex > functions. I used > the test file from Henry Spencer together with the test > application > from glibc, and the results were hair-raising. I did > practically > nothing else today but to debug this and to minimize the > problems with > this regex implementation, especially in the multibyte > cases. AFAICS > there are no really bad problems left. Makes me > wonder if this code was > really tested at all in FreeBSD :( > Thanks, waiting for the next snapshot to test it > > Corinna Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
