On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, V. T. Mueller wrote: > Err, I doubt that. At least, even an old and minimally installed HP-UX has > those included in the core OS:
It was certainly true in the early days of Exim (i.e. at the end of last century) that some Linux distributions (and possibly other OS) did not include a DB library by default. A search of the very old mailing list archives should turn up some threads (if anyone can be bothered to look). > So I'd still say that pcre would be the first external prerequisite for "core" > exim if omitted from the distribution. Maybe today, yes, but not historically! What I am thinking is that, in the longer term, PCRE may reach the same status as the DB libraries. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
