Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 2/6/2010 2:20 PM: >>> Rather than declaring to always fail and Pexecute to just abort(), maybe >>> it would make more sense to omit their declarations altogether in that >>> instance, and not even expose the command line option? Or is that too >>> drastic, and we should come up with some other alternative? >> Taking a non-invasive approach, so far I've always solved this >> by installing the required package. > > Yes, and that's how I got past the error. But either we should document > pcre-devel as a dependency in HACKING, or we should still consider that > not everyone necessarily wants pcre-enabled grep.
Or both? That is, all dependencies should be documented, including the optional ones, and not all dependencies (such as PCRE support) should be required. Cheers, TAA -- Tony Abou-Assaleh, PhD Email: [email protected] Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tabouasssaleh Twitter: http://twitter.com/tony_aa
