On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > >> I'm running configure for PCRE 8.00 on Redhat AS2.1 and hanging >> during >> the second occurrence of "checking for alias support in the >> linker". I >> was hoping you could point me towards a means to fix this or some way >> to get more information as to why it's hanging here. > > Oh gosh, that is somewhere in the magic that is generated by autoconf, > about which I know nothing, and I rather suspect that most folks on > this > list know nothing about it either. Prove me wrong, anybody? > > Under Gentoo Linux, I get two identical lines: > > checking for alias support in the linker... no > checking for alias support in the linker... no > > and then it moves on. I've had a quick look at ./configure, and it > seems > that this check is concerned with compiling the C++ wrapper. First, I > suggest you try ./configure --disable-cpp to see if you can compile > the > main C library without the C++ wrapper. If you really need the C++ > wrapper, all I can suggest is that you hack about in ./configure, look > for that message, and cut out the section where it appears. > > Further checking shows that the test originates in ./configure.ac. Is > that in the distribution? Perhaps not. You can get it from the svn > repository if you want to play with things at that level: > > svn co svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk pcre >
Philip, Thanks for the info. --disable-cpp does in fact allow pcre to compile. I'd like to look deeper into this, but the svn checkout you supplied does not work: $>svn co svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk pcre svn: Can't connect to host 'vcs.exim.org': No route to host I also could not find any links to the subversion repo on any of the pcre sites. If you can give me a good link, I'd definitely like to fix this problem Thanks Todd -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
