Regex.h, regcomp, etc, how to include

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for telling me the bad news :-) with
> respect to regex.h and friends.
> 
> This raises an issue of how we package this.
> 
> Is it acceptible to distribute GNU regex? 
> 
> In any case, it seems that I had better protect the sections that use
> regular expression pattern matching with an IFDEF (like #IFDEF
> REGEX_FILE_MATCHING) which is off by default, so that people can enable it
> them selves if they want it.
> 
> I can check the availability on a limited number of systems, like Digital
> UNIX, AIX, Linux, and perhaps ULTRIX ...

just like with -DFAST_SHARE_MODES.

this is another case indicating the need for autoconf.  anyone want to
convert samba to use GNU autoconf?

luke