Re: Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file

On 06/10/16 20:11, Jeff King wrote: Junio mentioned the NO_REGEX knob in the Makefile. If that works for you, the next step is probably to add a line to the HP-UX section of config.mak.uname, so that it just works out of the box. This doesn't work because the check in git-compat-util.h only

Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file

git ships with a compat/regex tree containing a recent regex release, presumably with the intention of allowing systems with either no regex or an old regex installed to use the newer compat version. With the release of git-2.10.1, the use of a recent regex is now specifically checked in