[Chicken-users] problem building with pcre support

[Graham Fawcett]

Hi folks,

I'm need some help building 2.3 with PCRE on an Fedora Core server.
The configure script doesn't seem to like my pcre-devel
environment. It reports:

  $ ./configure | grep pcre
  checking pcre.h usability... no
  checking pcre.h presence... no
  checking for pcre.h... no
  checking for pcre_compile in -lpcre... yes

although I have both pcre and pcre-devel RPMs installed:

  $ rpm -q pcre pcre-devel
  pcre-4.5-2
  pcre-devel-4.5-2

  $ rpm -q --list pcre-devel pcre
  /usr/bin/pcre-config
  /usr/include/pcre
  /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h
  /usr/include/pcre/pcreposix.h
  /usr/lib/libpcre.a
  /usr/lib/libpcre.so
  /usr/lib/libpcreposix.a
  /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so
  [manpage lines snipped]
  /lib/libpcre.so.0
  /lib/libpcre.so.0.0.1
  /usr/bin/pcregrep
  /usr/bin/pcretest
  /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0
  /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0.0.0
  [manpage lines snipped]

It's definitely not there in the built interpreter:

  $ ./csi -q
  #;1> (require 'regex)
  #;2> (test-feature? 'pcre)
  #f

Gory system details:

  $ uname -a
  Linux yorrick 2.6.10-1.771_FC2smp #1 SMP Mon Mar 28 01:10:51 EST
  2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Graham