Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> This is especially unfriendly when the semantics of the switch come
> across, at least to some users, as "your system regex is incomplete"
> rather than "git can't use it because git depends on nonstandard
> extensions".
The latter is exactly what Makefile patch that brought this change
says, I think.
# Define NO_REGEX if your C library lacks regex support with REG_STARTEND
# feature.
Before the series updated the message to the above, we used to say:
# Define NO_REGEX if you have no or inferior regex support in your C library.
which _was_ unfair to those who needed to set NO_REGEX for whatever
reason. It was totally unclear "inferior" relative to what standard
the message was passing its harsh judgement on your C library.