On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > I have confirmed that grep linked with libpcre.a built from upstream > sources [commit f9d3a72ea5e86a674a9836b462e1231ecce0d739] (8.34) also > works the way I expect.
More data points: Fedora 20 and OS/X work both with pcre-8.33, so I conclude this is a problem specific to some Debian-specific patch. I expect to push that patch as-is and defer to a separate commit (or maybe even skip altogether) any portability hack that might warn or disable PCRE support when detecting the broken library.
