GNU bug report logs - #40395
Building Grep with PCRE support

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Package: grep;

Reported by: noloader <at> gmail.com

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 23:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 22345, 47264

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Building Grep with PCRE support
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 19:17:35 -0400

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on OS X 10.12. When I build Grep 3.3 from source tarball I see:

    checking for PCRE... no
    checking for pcre_compile... no
    configure: WARNING: GNU grep will be built without pcre support.

PCRE2 is installed in /usr/local. PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set and points to
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.

Configure _lacks_ an option --with-pcre-prefix=... Attempting to use it:

    configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-pcre-prefix

Would someone know how to build Grep with PCRE support?

Thanks in advance.
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