Hi. > From: Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> > To: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org>, Aharon Robbins <arn...@skeeve.com>, > bug-gnu...@gnu.org, bug-grep <bug-grep@gnu.org>, k...@freefriends.org > Subject: Re: Dealing with character ranges in grep > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:58:05 +0200 > > To make this proposed change go through, that configure-time option would > have to be eliminated, so that we always build with the gnulib-provided > regex code.
Gawk already works this way, FWIW. I think the gain in consistent behavior across Linuxes and non-Linux systems is worth the small cost of increased executable sizes. We're not talking about 100 M disks anymore. :-) Thanks, Arnold
