Switch from using regex-compat to regex-tdfa, as the C regex library is rather buggy.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/bugs/git-annex_doesn__39__t_list_files_containing_ISO8859-15_characters.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git-annex_doesn__39__t_list_files_containing_ISO8859-15_characters.mdwn
index 4ec042840..382ca9a0c 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/git-annex_doesn__39__t_list_files_containing_ISO8859-15_characters.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/git-annex_doesn__39__t_list_files_containing_ISO8859-15_characters.mdwn
@@ -33,3 +33,16 @@ git-annex 4.20130227, on Debian GNU/Linux (sid, i386).
     LC_ALL=
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+> Tracked this back to a bug in either the C library or the haskell
+> regex-posix wrpaper around it. I'm not sure which, but I emailed the
+> maintainer of the haskell library. It just doesn't think these
+> things are characters; even `.` fails to match them! Everything should
+> match that...
+> 
+> There are apparently quite a lot of bugs on POSIX regex libraries
+> as implemented on different systems:
+> <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regex_Posix>
+> 
+> It seemed best to jettison this dependency entirely; I've switched it to
+> haskell's pure regex-tdfa library, which works nicely. [[done]]
+> --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
index 0adadc637..4c48d7502 100644
--- a/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ quite a lot.
   * [DAV](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DAV) (optional)
   * [SafeSemaphore](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SafeSemaphore)
   * [UUID](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uuid)
-  * [Glob](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Glob)
+  * [regex-tdfa](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-tdfa)
 * Optional haskell stuff, used by the [[assistant]] and its webapp (edit Makefile to disable)
   * [stm](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm)
     (version 2.3 or newer)