Re: regex-test fails in 2.22.4

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Matthew Burgess <matthew linuxfromscratch org> wrote:

> From: Matthew Burgess <matthew linuxfromscratch org>
> Subject: regex-test fails in 2.22.4
> To: gtk-list gnome org
> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 3:34 PM
> Hi,
> 
> Running 'make check' on glib-2.22.4 shows that 'regex-test'
> fails.  I ran './regex-test --noisy | grep failed' that
> shows the following:
> 
> partial matching (string: "aa", pattern: "a+b") 
>     failed  (got 1, expected: 0)
> 466 tests passed, 1 failed
> 
> Is there anything I can do to debug why this is failing for
> me, or is this a known issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt.


I vaguely remember that not the latest PCRE should not be used, or, you
can put it another way - the latest PCRE breaks 'make check' of 'glib'.

...

I am using pcre-7.9; pcre-8.0 breaks 'make check' of glib-2.20.5.

Regards,
  Sergei.