[haiku-commits] Re: r38096 - haiku/trunk/headers/build/host/sunos
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:27:07 +0200
Le 17 août 2010 à 19:21, Andreas Färber a écrit :
> Am 17.08.2010 um 10:33 schrieb Axel Dörfler:
>
>> andreas.faerber@xxxxxx wrote:
>>> Cygwin and Solaris rely on Haiku supplying a glibc-compatible regex.h
>>> header.
>>> Before r38031, Solaris was able to reuse cygwin/regex.h successfully.
>>> Import
>>> the latest stable 2.11 posix/regex.h to avoid local trickery and to
>>> silence
>>> some RE_* errors.
>>
>> That sounds messy - why can't we use the host's regex.h header?
>
> Cygwin and Solaris host-compile libroot's glibc regex sources into the keymap
> tool - for that we need a matching header.
>
> Why Cygwin chose that route in the first place, I don't know. Probably
> because no fully GNU-compatible regex.h is available on the host?
>
> For instance, there's no single RE_* macro in OpenSolaris's regex.h header:
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/head/regex.h
Hmm neither in OSX' one, does that mean if I jam clean and try a full build it
will screw up now ?
François.
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