Reuben Thomas wrote: > I have two outstanding patches against grep: #7017 (dlopen PCRE) & > #6107 (Patch to add transparent decompression). Both require dynamic > run-time linking (indeed, #6107 is purely to add it). > > They have been stuck for some years because I have been unable to get > the grep maintainers to tell me how they'd like to do dynamic linking > (see the inconsistent comments to #7017).
That was before a big flurry of activity and multiple releases. Please post complete and rebased patches (here, please, not on the tracker) and I'll take a look. grep development has calmed down a lot since last March. > Both patches address items on the TODO list. > > Since the maintainers have not found the time to address this problem, > maybe it's not considered worth the effort to solve? You haven't pinged us in a while...
