Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:59:55 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Regex question (is it broken?) Message-ID: <20010205085955.C15373@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010204234757.009f0470@pop3.martysparadox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010204234757.009f0470@pop3.martysparadox.com>; from marty@martysparadox.com on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:56:29PM -0600 On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:56:29PM -0600, Marty wrote: > I installed Cygwin a couple of weeks ago, and I notice that the regex > functionality seems broken. Attached is a test program I cobbled together > from various places, just so I could get a handle on using regex > properly. However, while this program compiles properly, it does not > execute correctly on either of two machines I've tried Cygwin on (WinNT box > and a Win98 box), while compiling this on a Sun/Solaris/etc. unix machine > seems to make it work just fine. I've searched the archives, etc., and > cannot find info on this issue. What's going on?? Did you link with -lregex? This is needed to get the POSIX regex functionality. The Cygwin internal regex functions are way older. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple