dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I tried to compile bluefish-1.0.7 and bluefish-unstable-1.1.6
> BOTH failed at first with an error about pcre.h
>
> SUNWpcre is installed on B94.
>
> I SYMLINKED /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h to /usr/include/pcre.h and my
> compilation errors vanished.
> Both versions of bluefish compiled without errors.
Not recommended - much better to instead pass
CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/pcre"
to your configure invocation
> What I would like to know is "who's to blame" for this. The bluefish
> source code (which only had an #include pcre.h in it) or the SUNWpcre
> package.
I'd almost always blame the configure script, except that
when I run /usr/bin/pcre-config --cflags I see no output.
That could be a bug in Sun's package delivery.
James C. McPherson
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