It depends on regex.h, that is not part of IRIX 5's standard library
and, in fact, that is no portable in general. I'm currently using
GNU rx as a replacement, but it would be nice to have a portable
implementation of regular expressions built into OpenSSH, if it is to
depend on them.
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On 17 Jan 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:> It depends on regex.h, that is not part of IRIX 5's standard library > and, in fact, that is no portable in general. I'm currently using > GNU rx as a replacement, but it would be nice to have a portable > implementation of regular expressions built into OpenSSH, if it is to > depend on them.Build in everything some ancient && obscure systems just _might_ need? SGI doesn't even support Irix 5 anymore, AFAIK. IMO, no way :-) -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
On 17 Jan 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:> It depends on regex.h, that is not part of IRIX 5's standard library > and, in fact, that is no portable in general. I'm currently using > GNU rx as a replacement, but it would be nice to have a portable > implementation of regular expressions built into OpenSSH, if it is to > depend on them.This has come up in the past: we will not be including a regex implementation in OpenSSH, the OpenBSD regex is ~100k of source. An excellent regex replacement is PCRE (I don't have the URL handy). -d -- | ``We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on | Damien Miller - | a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the | <djm at mindrot.org> | works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, / | we know this is not true.'' - Robert Wilensky UCB / http://www.mindrot.org