svn commit: trunk/uClibc/extra/Configs
vapier at uclibc.org
vapier at uclibc.org
Tue Dec 6 01:02:43 UTC 2005
Author: vapier
Date: 2005-12-05 17:02:32 -0800 (Mon, 05 Dec 2005)
New Revision: 12665
Log:
better help message for regex_old
Modified:
trunk/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.in
Changeset:
Modified: trunk/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.in
===================================================================
--- trunk/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.in 2005-12-05 21:21:01 UTC (rev 12664)
+++ trunk/uClibc/extra/Configs/Config.in 2005-12-06 01:02:32 UTC (rev 12665)
@@ -1045,15 +1045,20 @@
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"
default n
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