OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 won't build on IRIX 5.2

[Damien Miller]

On 17 Jan 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> It depends on regex.h, that is not part of IRIX 5's standard library
> and, in fact, that is no portable in general.  I'm currently using 
> GNU rx as a replacement, but it would be nice to have a portable
> implementation of regular expressions built into OpenSSH, if it is to
> depend on them.

This has come up in the past: we will not be including a regex 
implementation in OpenSSH, the OpenBSD regex is ~100k of source.

An excellent regex replacement is PCRE (I don't have the URL handy).

-d

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