Re: re_compile_pattern change

2007-03-07 Thread James Youngman
On 1/4/07, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally speaking, I find it easiest just to sync all of gnulib. That's what everyone else does. It's simpler, since you don't need to worry so much about integration hassles within gnulib. [...] If you take gnulib snapshots, you can diff the

Re: re_compile_pattern change

2007-01-04 Thread Paul Eggert
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll consider myself notified.Apart from that bugfix are there any > other essential changes I should import, or are you suggesting I > update the whole of gnulib to current CVS? Generally speaking, I find it easiest just to sync all of gnulib. T

Re: re_compile_pattern change

2007-01-04 Thread James Youngman
On 12/25/06, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 'tar' version is correct. But this is not an Autoconf issue; it is a gnulib version issue. The gnulib fix (dated March 25) is here: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/regex.m4?r1=1.50&r2=1.51 but apparently findutils is

Re: re_compile_pattern change

2006-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > One difference I noted in the test code used between tar-1.16.1 and > findutils-4.2.29 (2.60 vs 2.60a) was: > > tar: s = re_compile_pattern ("a[[:]:]]b\n", 11, ®ex); > findutils: s = re_compile_pattern ("a[:]:]b\n", 9, ®ex); > > A printf in both shows that tar say