3 # Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free
4 # Software Foundation, Inc.
6 # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
7 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
8 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
10 dnl Initially derived from code in GNU grep.
11 dnl Mostly written by Jim Meyering.
17 AC_REQUIRE([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) dnl for a sufficently-wide off_t
18 AC_DEFINE([_REGEX_LARGE_OFFSETS], 1,
19 [Define if you want regoff_t to be at least as wide POSIX requires.])
22 [regcomp.c, regex.c, regex.h,
23 regex_internal.c, regex_internal.h, regexec.c])
25 AC_ARG_WITH([included-regex],
26 [AC_HELP_STRING([--without-included-regex],
27 [don't compile regex; this is the default on
28 systems with recent-enough versions of the GNU C
29 Library (use with caution on other systems)])])
31 case $with_included_regex in
32 yes|no) ac_use_included_regex=$with_included_regex
35 # If the system regex support is good enough that it passes the the
36 # following run test, then default to *not* using the included regex.c.
37 # If cross compiling, assume the test would fail and use the included
38 # regex.c. The first failing regular expression is from `Spencer ere
39 # test #75' in grep-2.3.
40 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for working re_compile_pattern],
41 [gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_broken],
46 [[static struct re_pattern_buffer regex;
48 struct re_registers regs;
49 /* Use the POSIX-compliant spelling with leading REG_,
50 rather than the traditional GNU spelling with leading RE_,
51 so that we reject older libc implementations. */
52 re_set_syntax (REG_SYNTAX_POSIX_EGREP);
53 memset (®ex, 0, sizeof (regex));
54 s = re_compile_pattern ("a[:@:>@:]b\n", 9, ®ex);
55 /* This should fail with _Invalid character class name_ error. */
59 /* This should succeed, but does not for e.g. glibc-2.1.3. */
60 memset (®ex, 0, sizeof (regex));
61 s = re_compile_pattern ("{1", 2, ®ex);
66 /* The following example is derived from a problem report
67 against gawk from Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@ic.unicamp.br>. */
68 memset (®ex, 0, sizeof (regex));
69 s = re_compile_pattern ("[an\371]*n", 7, ®ex);
73 /* This should match, but does not for e.g. glibc-2.2.1. */
74 if (re_match (®ex, "an", 2, 0, ®s) != 2)
77 memset (®ex, 0, sizeof (regex));
78 s = re_compile_pattern ("x", 1, ®ex);
82 /* The version of regex.c in e.g. GNU libc-2.2.93 did not
83 work with a negative RANGE argument. */
84 if (re_search (®ex, "wxy", 3, 2, -2, ®s) != 1)
87 /* The version of regex.c in older versions of gnulib
88 ignored REG_IGNORE_CASE (which was then called RE_ICASE).
89 Detect that problem too. */
90 memset (®ex, 0, sizeof (regex));
91 re_set_syntax (REG_SYNTAX_EMACS | REG_IGNORE_CASE);
92 s = re_compile_pattern ("x", 1, ®ex);
96 if (re_search (®ex, "WXY", 3, 0, 3, ®s) < 0)
99 /* REG_STARTEND was added to glibc on 2004-01-15.
100 Reject older versions. */
104 /* Reject hosts whose regoff_t values are too narrow.
105 These include glibc 2.3.5 on hosts with 64-bit off_t
106 and 32-bit int, and Solaris 10 on hosts with 32-bit int
107 and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. */
108 if (sizeof (regoff_t) < sizeof (off_t))
112 [gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_broken=no],
113 [gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_broken=yes],
114 dnl When crosscompiling, assume it is broken.
115 [gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_broken=yes])])
116 ac_use_included_regex=$gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_broken
118 *) AC_MSG_ERROR([Invalid value for --with-included-regex: $with_included_regex])
122 if test $ac_use_included_regex = yes; then
128 # Prerequisites of lib/regex.c and lib/regex_internal.c.
129 AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_REGEX],
131 AC_REQUIRE([AC_GNU_SOURCE])
132 AC_REQUIRE([gl_C_RESTRICT])
133 AC_REQUIRE([AM_LANGINFO_CODESET])
134 AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([locale.h wchar.h wctype.h])
135 AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([isblank mbrtowc mempcpy wcrtomb wcscoll])