Re: GRegex

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:05 -0400, Marco Barisione wrote:
> 
> If you prefer you can pass --enable-system-pcre to use the
> system-supplied library but, if it's compiled without utf-8 support,
> g_regex_new fails. 

This is broken.  It should err at configure time, not run time.  The
user shouldn't need to check the output of g_regex_new for failures,
just like any other thing we do with glib.

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