Re: [Monotone-devel] library build

[Stephen Leake]

"Zbigniew Zagórski" <address@hidden> writes:

> 2008/9/28 Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
>> Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Instead we should IMO simply rip out the still-bundled stuff (pcre,
>>> sqlite, idna, botan) and adjust the Makefile cruft to build against
>>> system provided libraries - as the vast majority of other software
>>> does. Or how often did you encounter a 'configure' which doesn't
>>> configure anything but leaves that task for 'make', making you fiddle
>>> with aclocal in subdirectories if things don't work out as planned?
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>
>> I agree this is a reasonable goal, at least on platforms that have
>> decent package managers.
>>
>> MinGW doesn't have a decent package manager, and I don't know where to
>> get pcre for MinGW; I looked for that a while ago. I haven't looked
>> for the others.
>
> AFAIR, on properly configured mingw+msys

"properly" is of course the issue. 

Where did you get the mingw pcre package from?

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