fnmatch/regex in uClibc
Peter S. Mazinger
ps.m at gmx.net
Fri Dec 23 20:42:35 UTC 2005
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rob wrote:
> Quoting Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>:
>
> > i would make fnmatch a suboption of new regex and not bother with old
> > regex ... so people can have:
> > new regex w/out fnmatch
> > new regex w/fnmatch
> > old regex w/out fnmatch
>
> Geez... what a mess. I don't suppose it's possible to fix or bridge whatever
> is problematic between the old + new regex libraries (I imagine for
> longer-term maintenance, harmonising things with the new would be better if
> possible) so that one regex library is used, and even better, used by whatever
> utilities need regex, as opposed to various "wildcat" versions embedding
> various versions of it?
>
> Was fnmatch() one of the culprit functions which made that call to ___mempcpy()?
it is the gnulib version of regex that used __mempcpy (if you use old
regex in uClibc, configure of a gnu app detects unproper regex and builds
the one provided by gnulib if some gnulib module is depending on proper
regex)
Peter
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