Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH 07/10] assume regex.h support is always available

[Mike Frysinger]

On 21 Feb 2017 16:12, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2017 21:12, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > After those ten patches, nano's binary has grown from
> > 195K to 203K.  Not much, but still: how come?  Eight
> > kilobytes of code is compiled in that we're not using?
> 
> when i test locally, code size is unchanged.  off the top of my head,
> i'd guess that gnulib detected some bugs in your system and pulled in
> fixes/workarounds for them.  just because you're running glibc doesn't
> mean it's bug free :).

did you have an opinion on this ?

i'm hesitant to try and do any kind of magic probing.  you can't really
tell the diff between "i've got a GNU/Linux setup that's recent and the
bugs are 'fine'" and "i've got an old GNU/Linux setup that's full of
known bugs and i can't update it".

i might be able to add a flag like "--disable-gnulib", but i'm not sure
how useful that'll actually be.
-mike

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