Re: Beta release of gawk 5.1.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: arnold@skeeve.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 01:10:50 -0600
> 
> I don't have any comment. Gawk uses facilities that have
> been in Linux for decades; it should be possible to backport
> it quite a ways, but I'm not going to do any experiments.
> 
> Let's see. You do need a C99 compiler, but that may
> be it.
> 
> If someone finds issues I'm happy to evaluate if they are
> worth addressing or not.

What about the regex and dfa functions in glibc?  Building Gawk on
GNU/Linux uses the versions from glibc, not the Gnulib replacements,
right?  If so, which glibc versions have the right code?