From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Trunk of 'file' fails to build due to regex error
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160210115830.GD15391@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BA6943.9030104@gmail.com>
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On Feb 9 23:33, David Macek wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm trying to build the `file` program from trunk, but I'm getting a regex error that seems to be related to 8-bit character handling in Cygwin.
>
> The error happens when compiling the magicfile:
>
> > file: line 83: regex error 17 for `[=.<>|!^▒]{79}', (illegal byte sequence)
>
> I currently have little idea where to start in investigating this error. I'd be glad if someone could help.
>
> See <http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=518> for upstream bug where
> there's a link to <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00426.html>
> which seems to be about a very similar (if not the same) error, but
> more than 2 years ago.
I replied in the bug tracker.
Corinna
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2016-02-09 22:33 David Macek
2016-02-10 11:58 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-02-10 20:16 ` David Macek
2016-02-11 9:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
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