Hello, BLFS currently includes a patch, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/pcre-7.6-abi_breakage-1.patch, that is meant to preserve binary compatibility with old versions. I.e., without the patch, one has to recompile all dependent packages when upgrading from PCRE < 7.6 to 7.6. However, do we really care about binary compatibility in BLFS? The only reason this patch may be needed in a source-based distro is to preserve compatibility with commercial binary-only programs linked against old PCRE.
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