Bug 974257 - RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine
Summary: RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-13 19:18 UTC by Thomas Moschny
Modified: 2015-02-17 15:34 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 15:34:14 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Thomas Moschny 2013-06-13 19:18:57 UTC
Description of problem:
internal error in regular expression engine

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.7.5-1.fc19.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# python
Python 2.7.5 (default, May 16 2013, 13:43:50) 
[GCC 4.8.0 20130412 (Red Hat 4.8.0-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.compile(".*yz", re.S).findall("xyz")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine


Additional info:
- Does not affect x86_64.
- See http://bugs.python.org/issue17998

Comment 1 Jerry James 2013-07-31 19:37:57 UTC
This bug is now blocking the rebuild of polybori for the new boost release.  Is there an ETA on when the upstream patch might be applied?

Guessing m4ri compile flags...  yes
RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine:
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/polybori-0.8.3/SConstruct", line 1164:
    pb_symlinks = SymlinkReadableLibname(libpbShared)
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/polybori-0.8.3/SConstruct", line 1111:
    sonameversion = soPattern.findall(path.basename(env.subst('$LIBRARY_VERSION')))[0]
RPM build errors:
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16oa2q (%build)
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.16oa2q (%build)
Child return code was: 1

Comment 2 Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda 2013-08-05 06:16:40 UTC
It seems that the upstream patch is breaking Python builds [1]. I'd rather wait for a complete solution to not break anything else.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue17998#msg194276

Comment 3 Jerry James 2013-08-05 14:50:05 UTC
Bummer.  I found a workaround for polybori (shelling out to sed, of all things), so it's no emergency for me.  Hopefully upstream can find a good fix soon.

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