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Re: Systems with old regex system headers/libraries don't pick up git's compat/regex header file

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2016, 18:25 UTC
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Richard Lloyd <richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com> writes:
> git ships with a compat/regex tree containing a recent regex
> release, presumably with the intention of allowing systems with
> either no regex or an old regex installed to use the newer compat
> version.
Quick question.  Does NO_REGEX help?  cf. Makefile

# Define NO_REGEX if your C library lacks regex support with REG_STARTEND # feature.

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