[Bug 4694] UCLIBC_REGEX_OLD: "Invalid content of \{\}" error on regcomp('^\#define[[:space:]]\{1\,\}BOOT_TRAMPOLINE[[:space:]]\{1\,\}',0)

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4694

--- Comment #4 from Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> 2012-01-16 00:14:31 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> not sure how much effort is going to be spent here ...
> 
> config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD
> ...
>       ...  It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
>       corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings.  ...
> ...
>       If the older version has worked for you ...,
>       then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
>       Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
> ...

We should stop multiplying implementations of subsystems. We have two regexes,
two FNMATCHs, two or three pthreads, two malloc's... What I forgot? Ah. We also
have OLD_VFPRINTF. This is turning into a nightmare.

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