Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:48 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 12-Feb-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> | I just want to modify configure to change PCRE from being optional
> | to required, so that ./configure fails if it doesn't find pcre.h
> | instead of just building anyway. Not trying to fix the specific
> | regex problem.
> 
> Fix configure.ac to do the checks you want and to fail if pcre is not
> found.  Generate a changeset and submit it to the patch tracker on
> savannah.  It's better to submit the patch there than on the list
> because then it is much less likely to get lost.
> 
> jwe

Done. The patch is also attached. I confirmed that this has the intended effect 
when running ./autogen-sh followed by ./configure on OSX, with and without 
pcre-8.12 sudo make install'd to /usr/local.

Campbell

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