On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Btw, is there any reason that exim uses a build-in
> > version of PCRE and not a shared library?
>
> I assume because in ancient times pcre was not built as shared
> library and not installed on many machines, on Debian we apply the
> patch below to force dynamic linking.
Correct, but also I did not want people to have to install another
package in order to install "vanilla" Exim. This was naive of me,
because I had reckoned without the many different DBM libraries that I
subsequently learned about...
Another reason was that PCRE has gone through quite a lot of
development, and in the Exim documentation, regex examples might use
features of a later release than the one that is installed. Nowadays
this is probably less likely, as PCRE is currently quite stable.
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