regex matching appears to not work. about metacpan-grep-front-end HOT 8 CLOSED

interesting... I can clearly reproduce the issue in production... working as expected on my sandbox
wonder if it s not coming from the git version, going to try to use the system one

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Also for the sake of clarity, it would be a good idea to label the search as PCRE regex, as git does not use Perl regex.

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Also for the sake of clarity, it would be a good idea to label the search as PCRE regex, as git does not use Perl regex.

@Grinnz the interesting thing about that is that the git grep command line option is actually: "--perl-regexp"

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Yes, but it is mislabeled. The man page specifies that it is linking to libpcre.

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/usr/bin/git grep -l -P 'sub\s' -- distros/
fatal: cannot use Perl-compatible regexes when not compiled with USE_LIBPCRE

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git was not compiled with lib-pcre on the server, need to recompile it with pure among other dependencies, looks ok now in production

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git build process for 2.13.3:

USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease NO_TCLTK=1 ./configure --prefix=/home/toddr/git --with-libpcre && make -j18 install

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For informations, after recompiling a few requires libraries, here is the command I run to recompile git in my user directory with pure support

CPPFLAGS=-I/home/atoomic/include LDFLAGS=-L/home/atoomic/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/atoomic/ --with-libpcre --without-tcltk

List of required dependencies:

• m4 ( required for autoconf )
• autoconf ( yes really )
• pcre (used 8.41)
• gettext (used 0.19.8.1)

and then git itself (version 2.13.3)

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