Additional info; when I change the linking order of pcre and poco I got a different output:
$ g++ regex.cc -lPocoFoundation -lpcre $ ./a.out Poco 0x01030600 on Linux 4.2.0-35-generic @ x86_64 Poco match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no Poco match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no PCRE 8.31 2012-07-06 PCRE match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes PRCE match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes $ g++ regex.cc -lpcre -lPocoFoundation $ ./a.out Poco 0x01030600 on Linux 4.2.0-35-generic @ x86_64 Poco match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes Poco match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no PCRE 8.31 2012-07-06 PCRE match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes PRCE match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no Our system uses heavily Poco's StringTokenizer and Regex classes which are not working correctly on 14.04 and I'm most interested in a solution to get it back working on 14.04 :) I'm not familiar with LD_PRELOAD and the also do not fully understand replies like 'Yoshiki Kanemoto (yocchiman) wrote on 2015-05-01' so if anyone could tell we what the best approach here would be I would very greatfull -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pcre3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361610 Title: libPCRE3 8.31 regex matching is not working Status in pcre3 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in poco package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: It looks like that libPCRE3 8.31 included in Ubuntu 13.10 does not handle regex matching alright. This also affects the libPocoFoundation RegularExpression classes. I attached a proof-of-concept which tests a good and bad heystack string to a regex pattern with Poco, Boost and PCRE. I tested it on two different machines with the following output: Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 17:26:33 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux Poco 0x01030600 on Linux 3.11.0-13-generic @ i686 Poco match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no --> NOT CORRECT Poco match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no Boost match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes Boost match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no PCRE 8.31 2012-07-06 PCRE match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes PRCE match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes --> NOT CORRECT Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS 3.8.0-29-generic #42~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14 15:31:16 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Poco 0x01030600 on Linux 3.8.0-29-generic @ i686 Poco match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes --> OK Poco match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no Boost match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes Boost match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no PCRE 8.12 2011-01-15 PCRE match 1234567890 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? yes PRCE match 123456789 to pattern ^[0-9]{10} matches? no --> OK To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre3/+bug/1361610/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp