Yes thanks,
I missed the subtlety that you absolutely must only build a static PCRE
and use that when building Apache. The static build generates a pcre-config
that does this
pcre-config --cflags
-I/.../include -DPCRE_STATIC
and that -DPCRE_STATIC is all important.
Thanks again.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:08:46AM -0700, Jack Swan wrote:
>
> Try this and see if it works. I think it works for me (i just was working on
> this yesterday).
>
> I downloaded and built PCRE separately (8.35). I'm building on both Linux
> and Solaris at this point.
>
> ./configure \
> --disable-cpp \
> --disable-shared \
> --prefix=$LOCALDIR/$PCRE_VER
> make
> make install
>
> (I have --disable-cpp as a suggestion I found for building on Solaris. You
> may not need it).
>
> Then when configuring Apache had this as part of the configure command
> .
> .
> .
> --enable-pcre=static \
> --with-pcre=$LOCALDIR/$PCRE_VER \
> .
> .
> .
>
>
> Hope that works for you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: sdzie...@stronglg.demon.co.uk
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 10:56:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [users@httpd] How to link pcre statically into Apache 2.4.9?
>
> At work we compile Apache ourselves with some custom modules. I have been
> asked to upgrade from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4. The build script mostly
> works but we would like to continue to link pcre in statically and I am
> struggling to find the right combination of switches to configure.
>
> The decoupling of pcre is causing me problems. Ideally I would like to be
> able to treat pcre as apr and apr-util and build it in the Apache tree as
> in 2.2. Having failed to do that I would now like to link pcre statically.
>
> I have tried the following two with no joy:
>
> --enable-pcre=static
>
> --enable-mods-static="pcre"
>
> but it is still linked dynamically:
>
> ldd .libs/httpd | grep pcre
> libpcre.so.1 => lib/libpcre.so.1
>
> I realise that this is not the preferred direction but would like to link
> it statically for the time being. I will keep plugging away but if anyone
> still does this what am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
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