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Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 59, Issue 110


From: Carlo de Falco
Subject: Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 59, Issue 110
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:55:12 +0100

2011/2/20  <address@hidden>:
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:27:12 -0800
> From: Rik <address@hidden>
> To: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Octave Maintainers <address@hidden>
> Subject: Adding requirement for PCRE in configure.ac
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> 2/19/11
>
> John,
>
> Could you take a look at requiring building with PCRE in configure.ac?  The
> build experiences on Mac OS have demonstrated that POSIX regex are not
> sufficient; moreover, most Octave coders were already implicitly writing
> Perl-style regex.  I just checked in a changeset which updates the
> documentation and all of the regexp instances in the codebase to use PCRE
> style expressions (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e4dbfe3019b1)
>
> Cheers,
> Rik

I found a bug in "get_forge_package" that was introduced
by this changeset, a fix is in the bug tracker here:

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32559>

I've not checked if other PCRE style regular expressions also have the
same problem.
c.


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