Hi, Matt Beshara <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Guix people, > I have been working on creating a package definition for > pulseaudio-equalizer¹ and when built with the current definition of > the grep package, it prints this error message when running: > > grep: Perl matching not supported in a --disable-perl-regexp build > grep: write error: Broken pipe > > Searching for that error message, I came across this: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65800 > > So it seems that, for version 3.8, the pcre input package for grep > should be changed to pcre2. I have made this change in a new > definition which inherits grep and told my pulseaudio-equalizer > package to use that as a propagated input, and that causes the error > to go away. For the sake of completeness, here’s the definition I > used: > > (define grep-fixed > (package > (inherit grep) > (inputs (list pcre2)))) > > Best wishes, > Matt This appears to have been fixed independently by spacecadet in commit 5b0cea02358044f0cc695bacc3f44db1e220239b ("gnu: grep: Fix PCRE matches (grep -P)."). Closing! -- Thanks, Maxim
