On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:45:08PM +0100, Richard Lloyd wrote: > On 06/10/16 20:11, Jeff King wrote: > > Junio mentioned the NO_REGEX knob in the Makefile. If that works for > > you, the next step is probably to add a line to the HP-UX section of > > config.mak.uname, so that it just works out of the box. > > This doesn't work because the check in git-compat-util.h only looks > for REG_STARTEND being defined (if it isn't, it #error's out). > > That define is not mentioned anywhere else other than in the > compat/regex tree, which is why I used -Icompat/regex to pick up > <regex.h> from there - this was the "easiest" solution for me on > HP-UX 11. I'm confused. Setting NO_REGEX in the Makefile will add -Icompat/regex to your compiler invocation. So git-compat-util.h should pick up our compat regex routines, which _do_ have REG_STARTEND. How are you building? Doing: make NO_REGEX=1 is supposed to work, and if it doesn't, there's a bug. -Peff