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Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:07:57 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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To:	cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	Re: regex pb ?
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Emmanuel Blot wrote:
> The code coming from the openldap project that checks the POSIX compatibilty runs well under Linux, but fails under cygwin:
> 
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <regex.h>
> static char *pattern, *string;
> main()
> {
>  int rc;
>  regex_t re;
> 
>  pattern = "^A";
> 
>  if(regcomp(&re, pattern, 0)) {
>    /* returns 167837896 !! */
>   return -1;
>  }
> 
>   /* ... */
> }
> 
> Any idea ?

Did you link with -lregex? Otherwise you will link to the Cygwin
builtin regcomp function which is the old V8 regexp functionality.
The corresponding header is regexp.h. If you want the POSIX
implementation you have to link with -lregex.

Corinna

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