Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:22:27 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WITHOUT_GNU_[COMPAT|SUPPORT] Message-ID: <1349979747.1123.77.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <507705A7.9060506@FreeBSD.org> References: <1349975380.1123.66.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <507705A7.9060506@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:45 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Em 11-10-2012 19:09, Ian Lepore escreveu: > > I want to build grep without the gnu regex library. The makefile for > > usr.bin/grep contains > > > > .if !defined(WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT) > > > > And man src.conf documents WITHOUT_GNU_SUPPORT but doesn't mention > > WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT. Is this a typo in the makefile, or an ommision from > > the src.conf manpage? > > That time when I added the WITHOUT_GNU_COMPAT knob I didn't make it > global, just used it for testing grep. I didn't think it was of any use > for users and I wasn't aware of the existence of WITHOUT_GNU_SUPPORT. If > it seems useful, I can change grep to use this global flag instead of > the custom knob and it will just be built without the gnu regex library > if the knob is set. > > Gabor That would be helpful to us if you did that, thank you. We try to avoid including anything [L]GPL-licensed in the embedded-systems products we ship at work. -- Ian
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