[1.19.2] wildcard in regex not working in (e)grep, awk, sed when linked with uClibc 0.9.29.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 18:14, Tomasz Czapiewski wrote:
> Hi,
> I've noticed that wildcard is not working in busybox applets when I link 
> busybox 1.19.2 with uClibc 0.9.29 libs.
> 
> For example those are working fine when the same busybox code (and 
> exactly the same config) is linked with glibc:
> egrep '<xml>.*</xml>' file.xml
> awk '/<xml>.*<\/xml>' file.xml
> sed -n '/<xml>.*<\/xml>/p' file.xml
> 
> But the same commands do not return result on busybox linked with uClibc.
> (file.xml contains <xml><...><...></xml> pattern in one line)

This is an uclibc bug then. Please post to uclibc mailing list.
Don't forget to include .config files for both busybox and uclibc.

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vda