Package: mawk Version: 1.3.3a-11 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi. As you may know, mawk's internal regular expression engine doesn't support character classes and therefore is not conformant to POSIX regexp.
I've written patch which builds mawk with external regexp engine. There are lots of different regexp engines world-wide. You can use any of them On most modern systems system-wide regexp engine also conforms to POSIX. As a result mawk conforms to POSIX regexp, if you build it with appropriate regexp engine like this. # regexec/regcomp functions from libc will be used ./configure && make # TRE implementation will be used CFLAGS='-O3 -I/usr/include/tre' LDFLAGS='-ltre' ./configure && make Whether UTF-8 support is provided or not also depends on external regexp library. If you find bugs in it, let me know. The patch is here. Do not forget to run antoconf to create new 'configure' script. http://www.mova.org/~cheusov/pub/mawk_external_regexp.patch -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ac4-pktcd Locale: LANG=ru_RU.cp1251, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.cp1251 (charmap=CP1251) Versions of packages mawk depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
