Re: fastjar requires regex.h...

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>> FYI most people have stopped using GNU rx.  It isn't maintained and
>> ISTR it has portability problems.  The maintainers I know use GNU
>> regex.

Alexandre> Isn't it the other way round?  The latest version of GNU
Alexandre> regex at ftp.gnu.org is 0.12, dated back to 1993, whereas
Alexandre> rx's latest release is 1.5, dated 1998.

Nope.  Maybe nobody put regex up for ftp, but I know people have been
working on it.  I think Aharon Robbins (the GNU awk maintainer) has
been.

Alexandre> So do I.  Is anybody working to fix it right now, or should
Alexandre> I go ahead and do it myself?  Asking just to avoid
Alexandre> duplicating the work...  If nobody volunteers to do it in
Alexandre> the next few minutes, I'll go ahead and do it.

I have a patch.

Tom