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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