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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To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
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Subject: bug#63016: closed (make it easier to build with development
 versions of PCRE2)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 06:43:02 +0000
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From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: make it easier to build with development versions of PCRE2
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 09:06:55 -0700
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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.

Carlo
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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 63016-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63016: make it easier to build with development versions of
 PCRE2
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 08:42:40 +0200
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.


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