On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 01:24:57PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Reword an outdated comment which suggests that only git-grep can use
>> PCRE.
>
> Makes sense.
>
>> -# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. git-grep will be
>> -# able to use Perl-compatible regular expressions.
>> +# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various
>> +# commands such as like log, grep offer runtime options to use
>> +# Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended
>> +# POSIX regular expressions.
>
> s/such as like log, grep/such as log and grep/ ?
Thanks.
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> [...]
>> -# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. git-grep will be
>> -# able to use Perl-compatible regular expressions.
>> +# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various
>> +# commands such as like log, grep offer runtime options to use
>> +# Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended
>> +# POSIX regular expressions.
>
> Ditto.
>
>> @@ -499,8 +501,10 @@ GIT_CONF_SUBST([NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO])
>> GIT_CONF_SUBST([NO_OPENSSL])
>>
>> #
>> -# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. git-grep will be
>> -# able to use Perl-compatible regular expressions.
>> +# Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various
>> +# commands such as like log, grep offer runtime options to use
>> +# Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended
>> +# POSIX regular expressions.
>
> And again. It's weird that the text appears twice in configure.ac.
> Apparently you can use --with-libpcre or USE_LIBPCRE in the environment?
> Configure is weird.
You can't, I've added this to the commit message:
Copy/pasting this so much in configure.ac is lame, these Makefile-like
flags aren't even used by autoconf, just the corresponding
--with[out]-* options. But copy/pasting the comments that make sense
for the Makefile to configure.ac where they make less sence is the
pattern everything else follows in that file. I'm not going to war
against that as part of this change, just following the existing
pattern.