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[Alexander Barkov <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reindl,


On 11/16/2013 10:46 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 16.11.2013 19:39, schrieb Alexander Barkov:
> > I'm not sure why bundling PCRE with some our fixes should
> > be confusing. We bundle many libraries with our own fixes.
> > Before the 10.0.5 release we've bundled the Henry Spenser's regex library with our own modifications for many many
> > years.
> > No one was ever confused about that :)
> > So why do you think it's confusing?
>
> it violates the concept of shared libraries and is *highly* disapproved by most
> Linux distributions like Fedora which are doing a hard work downstream to
> unbundle all this stuff which wastes a lot of energy all over the world
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries

Thanks for the link. I have added it into the task description:
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5304


For now, we have to wait for PCRE-8.34 release anyway.
Adding an option to compile against the external PCRE-8.33
is not a good idea: any MariaDB user that have a valid
user and password would be able to crash the server
by sending a dangerous pattern to RLIKE. We can't do that.


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