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I have made this change in a new=20 definition which inherits grep and told my pulseaudio-equalizer=20 package to use that as a propagated input, and that causes the=20 error to go away. 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[72.10.128.232]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x3-20020ac81203000000b00427e0e9c22dsm2145038qti.54.2024.01.21.20.34.31 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:34:31 -0800 (PST) From: Maxim Cournoyer To: Matt Beshara Subject: Re: bug#66753: grep 3.8 now needs pcre2 as input, not pcre In-Reply-To: <87zg06496e.fsf@mfa.pw> (Matt Beshara's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:21:24 +1100") References: <87zg06496e.fsf@mfa.pw> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:34:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87fryq56ll.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 66753-done Cc: 66753-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi, Matt Beshara writes: > Hi Guix people, > I have been working on creating a package definition for > pulseaudio-equalizer=C2=B9 and when built with the current definition of > the grep package, it prints this error message when running: > > grep: Perl matching not supported in a --disable-perl-regexp build > grep: write error: Broken pipe > > Searching for that error message, I came across this: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65800 > > So it seems that, for version 3.8, the pcre input package for grep > should be changed to pcre2. I have made this change in a new > definition which inherits grep and told my pulseaudio-equalizer > package to use that as a propagated input, and that causes the error > to go away. For the sake of completeness, here=E2=80=99s the definition I > used: > > (define grep-fixed > (package > (inherit grep) > (inputs (list pcre2)))) > > Best wishes, > Matt This appears to have been fixed independently by spacecadet in commit 5b0cea02358044f0cc695bacc3f44db1e220239b ("gnu: grep: Fix PCRE matches (grep -P)."). Closing! --=20 Thanks, Maxim From unknown Tue Sep 23 07:58:11 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:24:16 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator