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diff --git a/reproduce/software/make/basic.mk b/reproduce/software/make/basic.mk
index f40dd6f..99e81d2 100644
--- a/reproduce/software/make/basic.mk
+++ b/reproduce/software/make/basic.mk
@@ -1039,7 +1039,19 @@ $(ibidir)/gmp-$(gmp-version): \
$(ibidir)/less-$(less-version): $(ibidir)/ncurses-$(ncurses-version)
tarball=less-$(less-version).tar.lz
$(call import-source, $(less-url), $(less-checksum))
- $(call gbuild, less-$(less-version), static,,-j$(numthreads))
+
+# Without the '--with-regex=posix' option, the build will depend on
+# PCRE (perl compatible regular expressions) which are not available
+# on some systems/compilers and can cause a crash. Maneage was
+# successfully built with the POSIX regular expression (regex), and
+# 'less' is generally, an interactive software, not a batch-mode
+# software (it is just added in 'basic.mk' because Git uses it to
+# display things. Again, this is an interactive meta-operation in
+# maneage (operations you only do when you are developing Maneage
+# within Maneage interactively, and will not affect into the actual
+# reproducible analysis!)
+ $(call gbuild, less-$(less-version), static, \
+ --with-regex=posix,-j$(numthreads))
if [ -f $(ibdir)/patchelf ]; then
$(ibdir)/patchelf --set-rpath $(ildir) $(ibdir)/less;
fi