coolview+less: search dying

$Bill Luebkert dbe@wgn.net
Tue Sep 23 08:05:00 GMT 1997


Chris Faylor wrote:

> The problem is due to the fact that Cygnus has removed regexec and
> regcomp from the next version of cygwin.dll because the source is
> LGPL rather than GPL.  Sergey's coolview stuff reflects the current
> cygwin sources so this has been removed.
> 
> I don't know if Cygnus plans to replace the regex functions with
> something GPL'ed for B19, but in the meantime it will be necessary to
> link in a static version of these routines into anything that requires
> them.

A good time to pick up the latest Perl regex functions, which are 
probably the best around.  :)

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