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

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

At 11:55 AM -0600 11/29/01, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>I think to make this all work, we need to rename the bundled regex.h to
>something like htregex.h to avoid conflicts, as well as put some hooks
>in the bundled regex.c code to disable it all if you need to use the
>C library code instead.  What do you think, Geoff?

I think other packages have some similar trickery, so I'm going to 
hunt through the autoconf repositories again.

>In the end, it might make sense to have a configure option to override
>the automatic test for this, because I'm not convinced it will work in
>all cases.  (However, to the best of my recollection, it is only BSDi
>systems that have a problem with the bundled regex code.)

If I can find the tests I'm thinking of, they'll have something like

configure
--with-bundled-regex
--without-bundled-regex
--with-rx

-Geoff