On Thu, Nov 03 2022, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> YASUOKA Masahiko:
>
>> Currently pcre2 is configured with "--enable-newline-is-any".
>> I think we should change it to --enable-newline-is-anycrlf to avoid the
>> conflict.
>
> If I may ask: Why do we diverge from the default newline setting
> at all?
>
> I notice that (1) the FreeBSD port doesn't and (2) callers that
> need to process non-Unix newlines can individually set this.

I took a look yesterday and I suspect that czarkoff@ enabled it out of
excessive zeal, along with the other --enable-* flags.  This is present
since 
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/commit/07650bf8fcd5da17ccdf71387917f5e30da5eb50
with no rationale or discussion on this list.

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