grep rebuild?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-03-16 06:08, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> there's a problem with the grep package.  It uses the internally
> provided GNULIB regex library.
> 
> Unfortunately, that's the default if the system doesn't provide a more
> recent GLibc.  Which we'll never do.  The problem is this: Native
> language support in GNULIB's regex is *only* available, if it's built as
> part of GLibc.
> 
> I'd like to ask you to rebuild grep 3.9 with the
> --without-included-regex option.
> 
> That will allow grep to use Cygwin's own regex, which already comes with
> basic native language support, and which I'm working on to sbetter
> support equivalence class and collation symbol expressions.

Hi Corinna,

We discussed this and I was going to release grep 3.8 test release 3, for 
testing with snapshots or when Cygwin 3.5.0 is released, then grep 3.9 came out, 
and I realized grep is updated every few months, so that went on the back 
burner. I can do a test release for 3.9-2 with that configuration change.

The current release passes all the class tests and works for me and Andrey.
Are there any other implications of language support affecting grep?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry