Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 Build should fail when PCRE is not available Control: severity -2 wishlist
Axel Beckert wrote on Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:53:36 +0200: > Yuri D'Elia wrote: > > In the last release, the pcre module does not seem to be built anymore. > > This causes "setopt rematch_pcre" to fail: > > > > failed to load module `zsh/pcre': > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/zsh/5.6.2/zsh/pcre.so: cannot open shared object > > file: No such file or directory > > -pcre-match not available for regex > > Thanks for the bug report. I just noticed it, too. > > I seem to have missed that the Recommends vanished because of the > according plugin files were no more built. The upstream build system treats PCRE as an optional dependency. In Debian, however, we should have the build fail hard when PCRE is not available, for compatibility reasons. Hereby filing that as #-2. Off the top of my head, we have several options: 1. Pass --with-pcre=foo to configure *and* make sure that configure dies if pcre is not found. (The configure.ac patch can be upstreamed.) 2. After running configure, check that the pcre line in config.modules has the expected values. (not upstreamable) 3. Patch Test/V07pcre to fail, rather than skip, if the PCRE module was not built. (not upstreamable) We can do more than one of these, e.g., #1+#3. Cheers, Daniel
