>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes:
Dirk> | It might be worth updating the dependency to libpcre >= 8.30
Dirk> That may in fact be thw minimum requirement now.
I tried building R 2.15 against PCRE 8.12 since I my curiosity got the
better of me (and I'm using R more than usual this month). It works
fine, even when dynamically linked against libpcre3 8.30.
In fact, I found that src/main/util.c has been cleaned up to not include
pcre.h and access the previously private _pcre_valid_utf8 function. So I
can confirm 8.30 is *not* the new minimum (in fact, I suspect the R source
is now more portable for PCRE versions than before).
Dirk> I guess putting libpcre3 'on hold' to keep the old version
Dirk> would work too.
It sure does!
Dirk> But hopefully by April 9 we should have R 2.15.0 in testing...
Yep, please go ahead and close this when you want to. It might be worth
leaving it open until April 9 on the off chance that this report helps
some one else who runs into the same issue (who will probably need to
browse http://snapshot.debian.org/package/pcre3/8.12-3/#libpcre3_8.12-3
and install that version :-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
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