Re: bug#20657: Accepting [xyz---abc] - three minus signs to mean one

2022-04-24 Thread arnold
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 4/24/22 06:21, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > I plan to add a test to gawk; perhaps grep would benefit from one as well? > > That'd need more than just a test, as we'd need to also modify regex.m4 > to arrange to replace any system regex that has this incompatibility > wit

Re: bug#20657: Accepting [xyz---abc] - three minus signs to mean one

2022-04-24 Thread Paul Eggert
On 4/24/22 06:21, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: I plan to add a test to gawk; perhaps grep would benefit from one as well? That'd need more than just a test, as we'd need to also modify regex.m4 to arrange to replace any system regex that has this incompatibility with gnulib regex. And we'd need t

Re: Accepting [xyz---abc] - three minus signs to mean one

2022-04-24 Thread arnold
Hi Paul. Thanks for this. The patch looks good. I will (eventually) merge it into gawk instead of my change. I plan to add a test to gawk; perhaps grep would benefit from one as well? Thanks, Arnold Paul Eggert wrote: > On 4/21/22 00:57, Arnold Robbins wrote: > > > As far as my testing indic

Re: [BUG REPORT] gnulib Android NDK and/or Cygwin build failure regression after 0c8a563f

2022-04-24 Thread Paul Eggert
On 4/3/22 19:22, osm0...@outlook.com wrote: Examined a copy of the conftest.out file the script parses those from and noticed it had CR+LF due to being from Windows Android NDK and/or on Cygwin, Sounds like your Cygwin shell is misconfigured. You might try setting SHELLOPTS='igncr' in your en