Re: svn commit: r1896976 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/STATUS

[Ruediger Pluem]

On 1/18/22 8:54 PM, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:48 PM William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Joe, Yann and company,
>>
>> please consider this, we will not build against PCRE2 without pcre2-config
>> installed from a pcre2-dev package. We find PCRE1 with pcre-config and link
>> to it, no hassle.
> 
> My concern is about the defaut, what happens if no --with-pcre or
> --with-pcre=yes is specified?
> 
>>
>> If someone went to the trouble of installing pcre2, wouldn't we want
>> to pick that
>> up, even across a patch release?
> 
> I think that a lot of systems have both installed (including the -dev
> packages for building) since pcre2 is the only one supported by some
> projects now and at least httpd requires pcre1 (until the next
> release) so it's likely there too already.
> I haven't looked at the configure part of the patch yet, it's possible
> that your proposed backport already picks up pcre1 when both are
> available (which looks the most reasonable to me for 2.4.x), I'm just
> lazily asking..

I think the default is pcre2:

https://gist.github.com/wrowe/73f655d13bbe0f12030aa4557e804d8a#file-httpd-2-4-x-pcre2-10-x-patch-L97-L99

Regards

Rüdiger