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| author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2005-12-06 01:02:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2005-12-06 01:02:32 +0000 |
| commit | 1fb4a50802ed511ac68ea382ee04a801b4bd585c (patch) | |
| tree | 155c70d5fa010ab4315a09c103993fb85262694b | |
| parent | bacb3513d998e94abc5681dfb8ec8ad7d6c0031f (diff) | |
better help message for regex_old
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/Configs/Config.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index fa3b1868c..4cd32e20e 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -1045,14 +1045,19 @@ config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions. config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD - bool "Use the older (stable) Regular Expression Support" + bool "Use the older (stable) regular expression code" depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX default y help - POSIX regular expression code is really big -- 27k all by itself. - If you don't use regular expressions, turn this off and save space. - Of course, if you only staticly link, leave this on, since it will - only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions. + There are two versions of regex. The older (stable) version has + been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many + updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon + corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite + a bit smaller than the newer version. + + If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode + support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here). + Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here). config UCLIBC_HAS_WORDEXP bool "Support the wordexp() interface" |