Re: re_compile_pattern change

2007-01-04 Thread James Youngman
On 12/25/06, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'tar' version is correct. But this is not an Autoconf issue; it is a gnulib version issue. The gnulib fix (dated March 25) is here: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/regex.m4?r1=1.50r2=1.51 but apparently findutils is

re_compile_pattern change

2006-12-24 Thread jeff
In gettext-0.16.1 and findutils-4.2.29, the version of autoconf used was 2.61 and 2.60a respectively. gettext-0.14.5, findutils-4.2.27, tar-1.16.1, coreutils-5.96, diffutils-2.8.1, grep-2.5.1a, and inetutils-1.5 all used 2.60 or older. The reason I bring this up is that the outcome of

Re: re_compile_pattern change

2006-12-24 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One difference I noted in the test code used between tar-1.16.1 and findutils-4.2.29 (2.60 vs 2.60a) was: tar: s = re_compile_pattern (a[[:]:]]b\n, 11, regex); findutils: s = re_compile_pattern (a[:]:]b\n, 9, regex); A printf in both shows that tar says