Re: GRegex

["Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz gmail com>]

On 10/24/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> 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.

It should be possible to write an auto* check that basically checks
whether something like:

#include <pcre.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
int has_utf8_support;
if(pcre_config(PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8,  &has_utf8_support))
  return has_utf8_support;
return 0;
}

returns '1' or '0'. If so, we should probably favor the system
installation of PCRE over the glib-supplied one.

Best,
Dom
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