Re: update to latest gnulib, with its new dfa API

[Norihiro Tanaka]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 03:02:18 -0800
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Norihiro Tanaka <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:19:04 -0800
> > Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> I expect to push this tomorrow, and will make a new (final?) snapshot 
> >> then, too:
> >
> > If RE_ICASE is not defined as regex library is too old, it does not work.
> > It seems that sed supports it still.
> 
> Hi Norihiro,
> Thanks for the feedback. Can you point to a specific type of system on
> which sed (with this change) fails to build?

No, but I seem that sed leaves support for glibc 2.2 or prior and does
not assume that RE_ICASE macro is defined always.

Now if you hope to remove it, I think "#ifdef RE_ICASE" should be
removed.