On 2024-05-26 14:02, James Youngman wrote:
Is this a known issue? If yes, was there a decision not to implement this
in gnulib, or is it a to-do?
Gnulib (which is very close to glibc) has never gotten around to
implementing shy groups. It'd be a nice thing to add for both Gnulib and
glibc,
I never looked at the check-module script until now. Was it supposed
to be used as an automatic check to be run before committing or
something?
I noticed that it doesn't handle conditional dependencies like this:
Dependencies:
stat[test $NEED_STAT_PLEASE = 1]
This diff should
Findutils has a bug report about non-capturing ("shy") groups \(? in
Emacs-dialect regular expressions (
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?65770).
>From the Emacs Texinfo manual:
‘\(?: ... \)’
specifies a “shy group” that does not record the matched substring;
you can’t refer back
Collin Funk wrote:
> I'm not sure how long this would have taken to get caught without CI.
I run the testdirs on various platforms occasionally. Without the CI,
I would have noticed within a few months.
The real question is: How could we have detected this without the
test-mcel.c test? Our unit t
