I'm looking into copying the pcre v2 sources into git.git as a way to appease people that mind the dependency, i.e. having to package pcre v2 themselves. They could then build with GIMME_YOUR_LIBPCRE2=Y or something.
I haven't started this but was hoping to find some minimal example of a project that does this already, i.e. compiles the pcre sources as *.o's and creates a single executable out of them, this is how git e.g. has a compatibility implementation of POSIX regex (copied from the gawk sources), i.e. no dynamic linking. The only project doing that which I could think of was php, but they copy the entire pcre sources, I was hoping for something more minimal. I.e. just a copy of the relevant *.[ch] files with a minimal config.h. I can try to hack that up myself, just thought I'd ask the list if anyone knew of existing uses like this I could learn from. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev