This ebuild gives you regular expressions support in xmingw environment. Because I had some problems with compiling PCRE library i decided to use Henry Spencers regexp library. This library is very important for cross-compiling applications because many of them use regular expressions (on linux platform it is integrated with glibc). Now xmingw has the same standard POSIX api to regular expressions support. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 65190 [details] ebuild for cross-compiled Henry Spencers regexp library
1/ Header is invalid. 2/ Version is hardcoded into SRC_URI. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3 Please fix the above mentioned problems and reopen then.
Created attachment 66998 [details] ebuild for cross-compiled Henry Spencers regexp library fixed ebuild
There is a problem with ".g3" in version number. I don't know what to do with it.
I will not add this just yet as I am considering making a new portage category for xmingw stuff otherwise things would get cluttered.
make a generic ebuild for the rxspencer package, target-specific ebuilds is not the way to go
Upstream is on Github now: https://github.com/garyhouston/rxspencer/ . That said, looks like this ebuild is no longer needed - xmingw is no longer in Portage and under MinGW (as well as MinGW-W64, I believe) one can use PCRE.
In light of lack of comments for 4 months now, I assume there is indeed no demand for this package. Closing the bug.
not exactly the same, but mingw-libgnurx is now in the tree https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2d5acbfd1b87c3fb532757bee5167fa7d0cfec50
