From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:43:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems with git 1.8.5.3 on HP-UX 11.11
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQKZ-oKTQ4Y2=qDaeQRXVZYOKRcSadOx2RwfjCziuu6fw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140328190156.GA30739@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:09:14AM -0000, Gerhard Grimm wrote:
>> git submodule init
>>
>> fails with the output
>>
>>     Assertion failed: err == REG_ESPACE, file compat/regex/regexec.c, line 1096
>>     No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'module'
>
> The regexes we use here are not particularly complicated. So either
> there is a bug (but nobody else has reported anything on any other
> platform) or your system regex library has some problem with what we are
> feeding it. The simplest solution may be to compile with:
>
>   NO_REGEX=YesPlease
>
> which will build and use the glibc implementation in compat/regex
> instead.

Based upon the assertion-failure message, it looks like he's already
using compat/regex.