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From: Jeremy F. <je...@go...> - 2004-01-05 10:33:50
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On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:15, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 01:02, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > CVS commit by fitzhardinge: > > > > Debork regtests > > The '\1' reference will not work on FreeBSD. To quote the manpage: > > Back references are a dreadful botch, posing major problems for > efficient implementations. They are also somewhat vaguely > defined (does `a\(\(b\)*\2\)*d' match `abbbd'?). Avoid using > them. Yep, and -E doesn't work with gnu sed - we need to fix it properly somehow, but in the meantime we should not break the current tests. Perhaps we should use perl, since it will be consistent across platforms? J |