On 10/22/22 11:52 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
> There is an alternate solution for 2.4.x that is simpler for me to offer.
>
> it could be argued that an abandoned project, deprecated in 2015, and
> entirely abandoned effective June 2021, is only supported with an explicit
> path to the pcre-config file, and that only pcre2-config would ever be
> searched for in future 2.4.x releases, whether we observe --with-pcre
> or establish a new --with-pcre2 config flag. It might not be a bad idea
I think this is fine. It probably breaks some configure calls on some LTS Linux
distributions
where PCRE is still delivered and people did not install the PCRE2 devel
package yet.
But these can be fixed by either pointing to pcre-config explicitly or by
installing the PCRE2 devel
package.
Regards
Rüdiger
