Re: [htdig-dev] to-do list for 3.1.6

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Joe R. Jah:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > > Geoff, I hope you can do something about the configure tests, because I'm
> > 
> > I think based on what Joe has said about the new 3.2 configure tests, I
> > feel OK about trying to backport this. The new Solaris issue is pretty
> > minor, but aggrivating.
> 
> I was not precise in that message; Steps I took were slightly different
> from FAQ#5.14; here's what I did:
> 
>  . Removed htlib/regex.c
>  . Removed htlib/regex.h
>  . Removed references to regex.o in htlib/Makefile (in 3.1.6-1111-1)
>  . Removed references to regex.h in htlib/Makefile (in 3.2.0b4-1111-1)
> 
> Also attached is a list of error and warning lines in the config.log of
> 3.1.6-111101, just in case;)

OK, so for either 3.2.0b4 or 3.1.6, you need to manually override
things to get rid of the bundled regex code, right?

Geoff, I believe that you had already backported the 3.2 tests you had 
made.  At least, as far as I can recall, you hadn't revised the 3.2
tests since that backport.  The problem, as we had discussed back in
early October, is that these tests are too simple to catch the rather
subtle conflict on BSDI systems.  On Oct. 4, you suggested checking the
system type for "*-*-bsdi*", to make an explicit exception to the test
for these systems.  As far as I know, this hasn't been done in either
3.2.x or 3.1.x.

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