From 1fb4a50802ed511ac68ea382ee04a801b4bd585c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 01:02:32 +0000 Subject: better help message for regex_old --- extra/Configs/Config.in | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'extra') 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" -- cgit v1.2.3