Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:59:55 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Regex question (is it broken?) Message-ID: <20010205085955.C15373@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <5 DOT 0 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20010204234757 DOT 009f0470 AT pop3 DOT martysparadox DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple