Documenting CONFIG_EXTRA_COMPAT better
Rich Felker
dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Jul 1 19:08:39 UTC 2013
Hi,
I'm wondering if it would be acceptable to change the name and
description of CONFIG_EXTRA_COMPAT a bit. It regularly comes up among
musl users who find that busybox does not build against musl with this
option enabled, and who wonder whether it's something important they
would be missing if they turn it off.
The basic proposed changes I have in mind would be:
- Naming it something like "support matching embedded NUL bytes with
regular expressions". (Or is there anything else useful it does?)
- Including in the description that it changes several tools to use
the GNU regex API instead of the POSIX regex API, and maybe
mentioning explicitly that the GNU API is available with glibc and
uClibc but not musl. (Well, maybe not even uClibc, depending on the
build options; I think it has an option that omits GNU regex...)
- Clarifying that the feature the option provides is not needed for
conformance to POSIX but for extra GNU-version-compatible
functionality beyond POSIX.
Would this be reasonable?
Rich
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