Re: Regex.h, regcomp, etc, how to include

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@regent.push.net)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:26:51 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:26:51 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@regent.push.net>
To:	Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
Subject: Re: Regex.h, regcomp, etc, how to include
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980411082326.00875860@mail.adelaide.on.net>

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for telling me the bad news :-) with
> respect to regex.h and friends.
>
> This raises an issue of how we package this.
>
> Is it acceptible to distribute GNU regex?
>
> In any case, it seems that I had better protect the sections that use
> regular expression pattern matching with an IFDEF (like #IFDEF
> REGEX_FILE_MATCHING) which is off by default, so that people can enable it
> them selves if they want it.
>
> I can check the availability on a limited number of systems, like Digital
> UNIX, AIX, Linux, and perhaps ULTRIX ...

just like with -DFAST_SHARE_MODES.

this is another case indicating the need for autoconf. anyone want to
convert samba to use GNU autoconf?

luke