Re: [Chicken-hackers] use host PCRE to build the Debian package

[felix winkelmann]

On Jan 7, 2008 8:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > Ivan, thanks for the patch, but PCRE has been bundled with chicken to
>  > actually avoid using the host-systems libpcre.
>
>         Thus leading to duplication of the PCRE maintenance effort and,
>         what's even worse, to the duplication of the code, and therefore
>         its bugs.

Since we sync directly with the upstream sources, I can't see this as
code-duplication or extra maintenance.

>
>         Furthermore, if Chicken needs to be linked against a specific
>         version of PCRE, or (preferrably) a version of PCRE not older
>         than specific, `debian/control' has the means to specify so.
>

What about non-debian systems?


cheers,
felix