Re: grep 2.5 build problem on QNX 6.2

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:06:24AM -0400, David Wolfe wrote:
> Wish I had advice on how to fix this, but I don't know where to begin.
> (I'm happy to poke around some more if someone can tell me what to
> look for.)

a quick answer:

1) At least grep 2.5.1 is available.  If ftp://alpha.gnu.org doesn't have
it (it probably doesn't, it had a crash some time ago), you have to
retrieve it from cvs.  Search the Free Software Directory in www.gnu.org
for more information.
I've also found this:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs co grep

(The cvs contains a copy of 2.5.1.)

2) If the problem lies in regex.c, you should try update to the newest
regex.c from libc/posix/ subdirectory of the glibc CVS.

The command
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/glibc co libc
retrieves whole libc direcory, you cd libc/posix then and use regex.c
(plus included *.h and *.c files).

(AFAIK, there is no equivalent tarball.)

I think that adapting grep to the newest regex.c is very useful work, there
are often bug reports in bug-gnu-utils which could all be solved by this.

Though I'm not the grep maintainer, I'm interested in this, please tell me
if you do anything with this.
(And, of course, feel free to ask for more information.)

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal