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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2005-12-06 01:02:32 +0000
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2005-12-06 01:02:32 +0000
commit1fb4a50802ed511ac68ea382ee04a801b4bd585c (patch)
tree155c70d5fa010ab4315a09c103993fb85262694b /extra/Configs
parentbacb3513d998e94abc5681dfb8ec8ad7d6c0031f (diff)
better help message for regex_old
Diffstat (limited to 'extra/Configs')
-rw-r--r--extra/Configs/Config.in15
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"