On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:51:24 +0100 (BST) Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[PCRE support in Exim] > (1) Insist on a system library being installed. Go for it, IMHO. As Nigel said, I'd rather have 1 copy of a library to update in case of an important (e.g. security) fix, rather than the lottery of trying to pin down completely unrelated packages because they're statically linked against it. No point in having ten copies of something on a system when you only need one. Plus it saves you having to issue Exim updates in the event of a critical PCRE problem. OK, so I use systems (RH/Fedora) which come with PCRE. But even for those that don't, the above is still relevant. Even if Red Hat removed the PCRE package from their distributions, I'd still say the same. > (2) Use a *standard* private copy of PCRE, not a cut-down version as > now. Even if you opt for this, would it be possible to have a build-time option to dynamically link against a system copy? PHP provides this choice, which is nice. Presumably it would be fairly easy if Exim is expecting a "standard" version anyway. Tim -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
