Brian Pane wrote:
Richard Jones wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:00:46PM -0800, Brian Pane wrote:
I volunteer to upgrade the copy of PCRE in httpd-2.1 to the latest version. I'll have a bit of time to work on this over the next few days.
Any chance of integrating the fix in bug 27550 at the same time?
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27550
Rich.
I'll take a look at the patch in 27550 some time this weekend if nobody else gets to it first.
Okay, I checked out the patch attached to that bug. Supporting the use of an external copy of PCRE makes sense. The patch also changes various core PCRE function names to ap_*. That definitely helps prevent collisions with libc or libpthread versions of the regex functions on some platforms, but changing the PCRE function names may be controversial... would any other committers care to chime in with their thoughts on this?
Meanwhile, now that we have the latest release of PCRE in httpd-2.1, one option would help somewhat would be to backport it into httpd-2.0.
Brian
