From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/10561 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:29:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20161004172935.GC55392@wopr> References: <20161004150848.GA7949@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20161004152722.ex2nox43oj5ak4yi@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20161004154045.GT19318@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475602200 23439 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2016 17:30:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:30:00 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-10574-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Oct 04 19:29:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1brTXI-0004wn-QC for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 24346 invoked by uid 550); 4 Oct 2016 17:29:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 24328 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2016 17:29:48 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:10561 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Unless you can convince the rest of the Git developers (you would not > convince me) to simulate autoconf by compiling an executable every time > `make` is run, to determine whether REG_STARTEND is defined, this is a > no-go. There is no chance of convincing the git developers to write portable software, instead? Is there a place I can read about why this decision is regarded as infallible? khm