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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Richard Lloyd <richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file
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Richard Lloyd <richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com> writes:

> 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.

Quick question.  Does NO_REGEX help?  cf. Makefile

# Define NO_REGEX if your C library lacks regex support with REG_STARTEND
# feature.