Hello,
Philip Hazel schrieb:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Phil Brutsche wrote:
Exim doesn't ship with private copies of TCP Wrappers, OpenLDAP,
OpenSSL, GNUTLS, various SQL libraries or PAM. Why should PCRE be any
different?
Granted, unlike the other libraries Exim won't work without PCRE...
Yes, that's one difference. However, Exim won't work without a DB
library of some sort either... so there is at least one precedent.
Err, I doubt that. At least, even an old and minimally installed
HP-UX has those included in the core OS:
$ ll /usr/lib/*dbm*; uname -rs
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libdbm.1
-r--r--r-- 12 bin bin 6272 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libdbm.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/libdbm.sl -> ./libdbm.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libndbm.2
-r--r--r-- 12 bin bin 6272 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libndbm.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/libndbm.sl -> ./libndbm.2
lr--r--r-T 1 root sys 27 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/llib-ldbm -> /usr/ccs/lib/lint/llib-ldbm
lr--r--r-T 1 root sys 25 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/llib-ldbm.ln -> /usr/ccs/lib/llib-ldbm.ln
HP-UX B.11.11
So I'd still say that pcre would be the first external prerequisite
for "core" exim if omitted from the distribution.
Cheers,
vt
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