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make it easier to build with development versions of PCRE2

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63016: closed (Re: bug#63016: make it easier to build with
 development versions of PCRE2)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 06:43:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#63016: make it easier to build with development versions of PCRE2

which was filed against the grep package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 63016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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