GNU bug report logs - #63016
make it easier to build with development versions of PCRE2

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Reported by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 63016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jim <at> meyering.net, carenas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#63016: make it easier to build with development versions of PCRE2
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:51:14 -0700
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On 2023-04-28 23:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 6:08 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
> <carenas <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Building against a different version of PCRE2 that the one that is provided
>> with the system is complicated by the fact that unlike what is advertised,
>> if a pkg-config module for libpcre2-8 is found, it will override the values
>> that were provided with PCRE_CFLAGS and PCRE_LIBS.
> 
> Thank you. Pushed.

I installed the attached minor fixup for that, to handle "./configure 
PCRE_CFLAGS= PCRE_LIBS=".
[0001-build-support-explicit-PCRE_CFLAGS-PCRE_LIBS.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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