Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Set the NO_REGEX=NeedsStartEnd Makefile flag by default on AIX.
>
> Since commit 2f8952250a ("regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a
> non NUL-terminated string", 2016-09-21) git has errored out at
> compile-time if the regular expression library doesn't support
> REG_STARTEND.
>
> While looking through Google search results for the use of NO_REGEX I
> found a Chef recipe that set this on AIX[1], looking through the
> documentation for the latest version of AIX (7.2, released October
> 2015) shows that its regexec() doesn't have REG_STARTEND.
>
> 1. https://github.com/chef/omnibus-software/commit/e247e36761#diff-3df898345d670979b74acc0bf71d8c47
> 2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/com.ibm.aix.basetrf2/regexec.htm
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
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> config.mak.uname | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Thanks.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
Is there e.g. a build farm where we can check for this kind of thing
more systematically on supported platforms?