According to Joe R. Jah: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > According to Geoff Hutchison: > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > > > 1. better configure test for regex problems on BSDi > > > > > > I don't know if this will ever become "automatic," but it looks like we > > > can relatively easily have a --with-rx flag to the configure script which > > > will bypass the included regex code (and use the rx code instead). > > > > > > Does this seem like a reasonable workaround? > > > > That's reasonable to me. But back in October, you had suggested an > > automatic test for the machine triplet "*-*-bsdi*". Have you given up on > > that idea? It seems it's only been BSDI systems that have had problems > > with the bundled GNU regex code. I think manual overrides with --with-... > > options are a good idea, but an automatic test for setting the default > > would be handy and may cut down the number of questions on the list. > > I believe --with-rx is the better solution. Administrators of systems > that have not manifested any problem with the bundled GNU regex code, > would have an option to compare htdig performance with and without it. > I am not sure if the automatic test for the machine triplet "*-*-bsdi*" > would work; however, I wouldn't mind to have both solutions;^)
Having both solutions is exactly what I was proposing. The automatic tests are nice when they work, because they can save a lot of users a lot of fiddling to get things right, but it's nice to be able to override some of these tests with a command option should the test fail on a particular system. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
