usage of non-standard REG_STARTEND makes some ports angry

[Christos Zoulas]

On Mar 25,  1:10pm, vapier at gentoo.org (Mike Frysinger) wrote:
-- Subject: usage of non-standard REG_STARTEND makes some ports angry

| the new version of file uses a non-standard GNU extension to regex, namely=
| =20
| REG_STARTEND ... looking at the code, it seems like it isnt really required=
| ,=20
| but i gave it like a 5 second glance :)
| 
| any way i could convince you to not use this extension ? :)  if not, there'=
| s=20
| some patches floating around to emulate the expected behavior when=20
| REG_STARTEND does not exist ...
| http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=3D114330
| =2Dmike

There is a patch in the ftp site for file too.

christos