Re: Bug in Expr 2.0.12 - .* too greedy

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:20:20 -0500

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Jim Meyering wrote:

>It works for me with both glibc-2.2.5 and glibc-2.3.1.
>
>If your problem is due to libc having a broken version of regex,
>you might be able to get a working version by building
>the coreutils with `./configure --with-included-regex'.
>  
>

Thanks for the help.  glibc 2.2.93, at least as distributed by RedHat 
does appear ot have a broken regex library.  I upgraded to glibc 2.3.1 
and am no longer experiencing problems.

Derek

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