2011/9/5 Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>: > On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 11:43 +0200, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> ?* module-match should require pcre support, not be optional (i.e. it >> should behave consistently, and not be build-time feature specific >> (Tanu, you may have comments about this? Want to overrule this >> recommendation?) > > No, I don't really have any opinions regarding this. I don't know why we > support two regexp libraries. After talking with Colin about this on IRC, I now get this point. The thing is, the dependency on pcre was added to make regex functionality available for win32. On all other platforms the posix regex.h is available and that one is used. (even if pcre is available, if I'm correct) So there is no inconsistent behaviour here, other than a difference between Linux and Windows, where a regex difference is trivial compared to other differences. Maarten
