Re: [Swig-user] Building swig 2.0.2 with static pcre lib?

[Vadim Z. <vz...@ze...>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:15:30 -0800 Dean Edmonds <dea...@gm...> wrote:

DE> I'm building swig 2.0.2 on linux and would like to enable pcre
DE> support, but the binary will be distributed to a number of in-house
DE> systems which cannot be guaranteed to have the pcre lib installed on
DE> them. To get around that I would like to have swig link to the static
DE> version of libpcre rather than the shared lib, but I don't see any
DE> option for that in ./configure.
DE> 
DE> I tried setting the PCRE_LIBS envariable to /usr/lib64/libpcre.a
DE> before doing the configure and make, but the resulting swig binary was
DE> still linked to the shared lib.
DE> 
DE> Any ideas on how to achieve what my goal?

 Hello,

 Looking at Tools/config/ax_path_generic.m4 PCRE_LIBS seems to be indeed
ignored. AFAICS the only workaround would be to create your own shell
script which would output the wanted values for it, e.g. (this is untested)

	$ cat > ~/static-pcre-config
	#!/bin/sh
	usage="Usage: static-pcre-config --{libs,cflags}"
	if [ $# -neq 1 ]; then
		echo "$usage" 1>&2
		exit 1
	fi

	case $1 in
		--cflags)
			;;
		--libs)
			echo "/usr/lib64/libpcre.a"
			;;
		*)
			echo "$usage" 1>&2
			exit 1
			;;
	esac
	^D
	$ swig/configure PCRE_CONFIG=$HOME/static-pcre-config

Or maybe you could just edit the makefile generated by configure if it's a
one off build.

 Regards,
VZ