Man, you've got to love edge cases

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:44:26AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Does anybody know if the "rx" library has a length based interface?
> 
>        AC_CHECK_HEADERS(pcreposix.h rxposix.h)
 
I see that rx has regncomp.  Annoyingly:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-01/msg00160.html

It's probably not worth agitating for, since it would be years
before we could rely on it anyway.  Better to just use PCRE like
the rest of the world seems to :)

Bron.