REGEX on AIX V. 2.2.1?

Mark Brown mbrown at testsys.austin.ibm.com
Sat Feb 16 02:49:08 AEST 1991


geoff at mindseye.berkeley.edu (Geoffrey Ghose) writes:
> I am trying to compile Xrn V. 6.4, which needs either the SYSV REGEX
> package or the BSD re_comp, re_exec functions.
> Is either one available or are there any substitues?

The BSD regular expression handling is found in libbsd.a, and you compile
with the -D_BSD flag and link in this library.

Look in libPW.a for the PW functions.
Look in regexp.h for the "compile()"-style functions.


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