bug#34054: Error in compilation of pcresearch if we have no pcre library

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:03 AM Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Technically, we could fix it by adding more ifdefs, but I think it
> > would not be worthwhile to accommodate this use case.
>
> I looked into this and discovered that fixing this can actually simplify the
> source code by removing the need for the "We can't get here" glitch in
> pcresearch.c. Although the fix does add complexity elsewhere so that the total
> number of ifdefs and ifs remains the same, overall grep gets a bit simpler and
> cleaner with the fix so I took the liberty of installing it (attached).

Nice. Thanks for taking the time to move-"up" and reduce the complexity.