To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that jq's tests require regexp support to pass).
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote:
> + (inputs
> + `(("oniguruma" ,oniguruma)))
[...]
> + (description "jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and
> +filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk,
> +grep and friends let you play with text. It is written in portable C, and it
> +has zero runtime dependencies. jq can mangle the data format that you have
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Since oniguruma is listed as a run-time dependency, does this mean the
description is wrong? Or is oniguruma only needed to build?