in configure.ac, mention explicitly that the check for the broken

regexec() is needed for glibc 2.2.3

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@2461 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4b3d4e09cf498dd58ffa9f04f4a7a2a0911ab5de..83a87349b00165aefa3347e57d1ab6ae878d9f7f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ CVS code -
          well as curses, consolidate the warning and error messages
          dealing with UTF-8 support as much as possible, and add a few
          minor consistency fixes.
+       - Mention explicitly that the check for the broken regexec() is
+         needed for glibc 2.2.3. (DLR)
 - nanorc.sample:
        - Fix the description for the whitespace option to mention that
          only single-column characters are allowed. (DLR)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 81ecb4a6029a6b9f5e558b8535f36e481fc495be..6bc08af589d161a967112224957d8a6493d109e1 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ dnl Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fcntl.h getopt.h libintl.h limits.h regex.h termios.h wchar.h wctype.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADER(regex.h,
-    AC_MSG_CHECKING([for broken regexec])
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([for broken regexec from glibc 2.2.3])
     AC_TRY_RUN([
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <regex.h>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ int main(void)
 }],
        AC_MSG_RESULT(no),
        AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-       AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_REGEXEC, 1, [Define this if your regexec() function segfaults when passed an empty string under certain conditions.]),
+       AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_REGEXEC, 1, [Define this if your regexec() function segfaults when passed an empty string under certain conditions, as the one from glibc 2.2.3 does.]),
        AC_MSG_RESULT([cross-compiling; assuming no])))
 
 dnl Checks for options.