[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49993] configure PCRE using pkg-config

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49993>

                 Summary: configure PCRE using pkg-config
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Thu 05 Jan 2017 03:47:00 PM PST
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 2 - Minor
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: mtmiller
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I noticed today that libpcre now (and probably since about a decade) includes
a pkg-config file. Instead of relying on the "pcre-config" program, we should
switch to using pkg-config to configure the CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and LIBS needed
to build against PCRE.

I'm expecting to work on this, but don't let me block anyone else from doing
it first. Also let me know if this is a bad idea for some reason (some
particular distributions don't have libpcre.pc? macOS has some ancient version
of PCRE that doesn't support pkg-config?)




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