On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:17:50PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > I am thinking about moving pcre from BLFS to LFS. The latest less now > supports pcre and pcre2 and grep also supports pcre. It should be pretty > stand alone as the only dependency is (optionally) valgrind. > > If added, I would place it in Chapter 6 just before grep. > > There are 19 references to pcre in BLFS (and 6 to pcre2). > > What do you think? > > -- Bruce
As it happens, I currently build both before trying to boot. But I don't see the point of moving it. We've known for a long time that grep can use it, and we cover that. I remember when LFS was small - many things have been added, but the justification for adding pcre or pcre2 seems weak to me. More importantly, I think we should not be encouraging people to use pcre (instead of pcre2). While things in BLFS still needs it, fine - but it should eventually drop out. ISTR that the vulnerability fixes in the last couple of years did not get an updated release for quite a long while, unlike pcre2. ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
