[htdig-dev] regex, sym-links, OBJEXT and CVS

[Lachlan A. <lh...@ee...>]

Greetings,

A few questions for those with more experience than me:

- Why was  regex.h  renamed  gregex.h  in 3.1.6?  It seems 
to break the  configure  script, so that it always reports 
HAVE_BROKEN_REGEX.  This gave me troubles under  gcc 2.90, 
which was fixed by changing  #ifdef HAVE_BROKEN_REGEX  to 
#ifndef...  and renaming all the functions in  regex.[ch].  
Does anyone know the "right" solution?

- HtFile.cc  doesn't handle sybmolic links to directories 
very well.  For example, a sym-link   fred/ -> ../fred/  in 
directory  .../foo/bar/  leads to the path  
.../foo/bar/fred/  instead of  .../foo/fred/.  That could 
lead to loops (although I haven't tested that) and makes 
anchors with the path component '../' point to the wrong 
place.  It also causes the documents to be indexed multiple 
times.

I've written a patch to resolve sym-links using the URL 
class, but that will mean that the sysadmin can't use 
sym-links to do things like make machines with different 
directory structures appear to have the same structure.  Is 
that likely to be a problem?

- The  HtFTP  class seems to be basically the same as the  
HtFile  class, with name changes.  (From the name, I would 
have thought that  HtFTP  would handle  ftp://  requests, 
but it doesn't seem to...)  I have made changes to  HtFile  
(sym-links, determining MIME types from file content).  
Should I mirror these changes in HtFTP?

- I've changed some  Makefile.am  files, but when I 
automake (version 1.5), it generates files using the macro 
$(OBJEXT) where  .o  is produced by the current 
Makefile.in, and OBJEXT isn't defined.  How can I fix that? 
The  configure  script determines the object extension, but 
that doesn't seem to be used anywhere...

- Geoff, do you still plan to give me CVS access?  It would 
be great if you could.

Thanks,
Lachlan

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