Re: libpcre2 breaks COMPILED_SOURCE=1 tags

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 08:07:16PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> Newer versions of libpre2 have dropped default support for \K in
> lookarounds. Unfortunately, scripts/tags.sh relies on this option to
> collect all the _compiled_ sources. This is the error:
> 
>   $ make COMPILED_SOURCE=1 tags
>     GEN     tags
>   grep: \K is not allowed in lookarounds (but see PCRE2_EXTRA_ALLOW_LOOKAROUND_BSK)
> 
> It seems there isn't an official maintainer for this script and I can't
> quite understand the regex used for the query. Does anyone have a good
> alternative for this? The regex pattern was introduced in commit
> 4f491bb6ea2a ("scripts/tags.sh: collect compiled source precisely").
> 
> The previous form of all_compiled_sources() seems to work for me and I'm
> guessing it wasn't efficient enough? I can't find much info about the
> switch to find/grep either. I believe the initial thread is this:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200423103801.GA3730892@xxxxxxxxx/

Can you send a patch to revert the offending change?  That would be the
simplest for now, right?

thanks,

greg k-h