[haiku-commits] Re: r38096 - haiku/trunk/headers/build/host/sunos
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:03:57 +0200
On 2010-08-17 at 19:21:48 [+0200], Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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.
Which is quite ugly, though. I'd much rather see a separate copy of the
regex sources used for the build tools that can be messed with for any
build platform that needs it.
> 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?
I believe that was the reason.
CU, Ingo
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