On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I expect to push that patch as-is and defer to a separate commit >> (or maybe even skip altogether) any portability hack that might warn >> or disable PCRE support when detecting the broken library. > > Pushed. Let's take any discussion of grep's workaround for Debian's > PCRE problem to a new thread/issue. Hmm... I was chagrined not to be able to reproduce the output I quoted above, so dug into it and found the real error (mine), fixed it and adjusted the test: