Re: [OctDev] pcre.h not found

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

I'll apply this patch, but I'm not too thrilled about relying on the
existence of pcre-config.  Do we need a fallback which will search
for pcre.h and libpcre if pcre-config is not present?

Thanks,

	- Paul

On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> Attached is a much simpler patch that should resolve the situation,
> irrespective of any shuffling done by distros.
>
> I think it is safe to assume that pcre.h is present if pcre-config is?
> Otherwise we can explicitly check, using the output from
>
> `pcre-config --cflags`
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:52:06PM +0200, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:33:22AM -0600, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>>> On 4/13/05, Stefan van der Walt <st...@su...> wrote:
>>>> How about the following patch, as well as renaming pcregexp.cc to
>>>> pcregexp.cc.in and doing a variable substitution:
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> At this moment I am not even sure that this is not a bug with the 
>>> pcre-devel
>>> package. Perhaps, they should have made a symlink
>>> pcre.h -> pcre/pcre.h ?
>>
>> I think that Debian (and some other distros) modify the path to
>> pcre.h.  I notice now that there is a `pcre-config' available.  Maybe
>> we should rather use that to determine compiler flags.