Pedro Alves (palves@redhat.com):

> It's messy, and a might be a bit of cargo-culting is in place (not
> sure how relevant this all still is, we don't hear much about
> native Windows testing driven by native Windows expect, for
> instance), but as far as I remember, we've avoided writing
> multi-line regexps like that.

Fair enough! I'm convinced. Patch updated.