Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:07:16 +0000
From:   Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Jialu Xu <xujialu@vimux.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jialu Xu <xujialu@vimux.org>
Subject: libpcre2 breaks COMPILED_SOURCE=1 tags
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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@kroah.com/

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Carlos Llamas