On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:35:34 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Mike Bethune wrote: >> Also could there be an option to use ext pcre libs (as redhat's update for >> rhel4 does)? > >This item is something that has previously been discussed. What I would >like to do is to include a vanilla PCRE distribution instead of the >specially cut-down one that Exim currently uses, and have the option of >using it or an external library. This is a reasonable amount of work, so >it won't get done for some time, I'm afraid.
Debian's exim4 is patched to dynamically link against the pcre library from Debian's pcre package. The patch looks quite easy, see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk/debian/patches/36_pcre.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0h Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
