Adam, It doesn't sound that hopeful that the regex problems in perl will likely get fixed soon...
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-09/msg00227.html Assuming that is true, could we take the suggestion from the message about and where we currently have apparently something of the form... #!/usr/bin/perl $_ = "* foo: (bar) baz.\n" x 8192; for my $n (582..4096) { print "$n OK\n" if /(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){$n}/; } ...in install-info, change that to be of the form... #!/usr/bin/perl $_ = "* foo: (bar) baz.\n" x 8192; OUTER: { my $rx = qr/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n)/; if (/$rx/g) { for my $n (2..581) { last OUTER unless /\G$rx/g; } for my $n (582..4096) { last OUTER unless /\G$rx/g; print "$n OK\n" } } } Yes I know I'm a moron and that code doesn't exist explicitly in that form in install-info. However it is proof of concept for the change. Jack
