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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 21:18:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX4XPqZauD_M_ieOwVauT1fi3MQb4+6taELQaRG9M-Kz_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610041802310.35196@virtualbox>

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> As to making NO_REGEX conditional on REG_STARTEND: you are talking about
> apples and oranges here. NO_REGEX is a Makefile flag, while REG_STARTEND
> is a C preprocessor macro.
>
> Unless you can convince the rest of the Git developers (you would not
> convince me) to simulate autoconf by compiling an executable every time
> `make` is run, to determine whether REG_STARTEND is defined, this is a
> no-go.

But just to clarify, does anyone have any objection to making our
configure.ac compile a C program to check for this sort of thing?
Because that seems like the easiest solution to this class of problem.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-06 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 15:08 Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Rich Felker
2016-10-04 15:27 ` Jeff King
2016-10-04 15:40   ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 16:08     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-04 16:11       ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 17:16         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-04 18:00           ` Ray Donnelly
2016-10-04 17:39       ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 11:17         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 13:01           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-10-05 13:15           ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:06       ` James B
2016-10-04 22:33         ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:48           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-05 13:11           ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-05 16:15             ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 10:41         ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 11:59           ` James B
2016-10-05 16:11             ` Jeff King
2016-10-05 16:27               ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 10:44             ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-06 19:18       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2016-10-06 19:23         ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 19:25           ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 19:28             ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 22:42         ` Ramsay Jones
2016-10-07 11:30           ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-04 16:01   ` Johannes Schindelin

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