[MacPorts] #45500: ctags @5.8_1 ignores --regex- flags (was: ctags 5.8_1 ignores --regex- flags)

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#45500: ctags @5.8_1 ignores --regex- flags
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  Reporter:  mvgrimes  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:  2.3.2
Resolution:  fixed     |   Keywords:
      Port:  ctags     |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Bring in some of my comments from the PR:

 > The user didn't specify their OS version but it was filed in October
 2014 against ctags @5.8_1 compiled in November 2012, which means the
 newest OS X version they could have been using was 10.8 Mountain Lion.
 >
 > Doing a little testing on OS X 10.7 Lion with Xcode 4.6.3 (released June
 2013) containing Apple LLVM version 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM
 3.2svn), I built the following versions from git history:
 >
 > * 5.8_4 (where Josh fixed overlapping strcpy properly in June 2021)
 > * 5.8_3 (where I fixed implicit function declarations in January 2021)
 > * 5.8_2 (where the conflict with xemacs was removed in November 2015)
 > * 5.8_1 (with improvements to the PHP parser in November 2012)
 > * 5.8_0 (with optimization reduction to work around overlapping strcpy
 in May 2012)
 > * 5.8_0 (prior to optimization reduction in July 2009)
 > * 5.7_0 (from September 2007)
 >
 > All of them show the +regex feature exists in `ctags --version`.

 I didn't read the ticket closely enough and neglected to notice that even
 for the reporter here, +regex was shown in `ctags --version`, however the
 regex feature didn't work like it did on Linux.

 Going back to test the reporter's reproduction recipe with the above
 versions, none of them output the line `test    test.js /^  test =
 function(){$/;"  f` that the reporter expected it to. Or do you see this
 output on your system, Saj?

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