Re: MSVC build broken with perl 5.10

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I just tried the MSVC build on a system with ActiveState Perl 5.10, and
> it doesn't work. Some quick debugging before I downgraded to 5.8 showed
> that this regexp in Project.pm line 262:
> my $replace_re =
> qr{^([^:\n\$]+\.c)\s*:\s*(?:%\s*: )?\$(\([^\)]+\))\/(.*)\/[^\/]+$};
>
> matches things properly using Perl 5.8 in for example
> src/bin/initdb/Makefile (matches a total of around 10 Makefiles), but
> in 5.10 it simply does not match anything...
>
> Any perl guru out there who can comment on why? ;-)
>
>

Perhaps you would like to comment it using the x format, so that it
doesn't just look like white noise.

cheers

andrew