Hello,
Philip Hazel schrieb:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>>Exim doesn't ship with private copies of TCP Wrappers, OpenLDAP,
>>OpenSSL, GNUTLS, various SQL libraries or PAM. Why should PCRE be any
>>different?
>>Granted, unlike the other libraries Exim won't work without PCRE...
>
> Yes, that's one difference. However, Exim won't work without a DB
> library of some sort either... so there is at least one precedent.
Err, I doubt that. At least, even an old and minimally installed
HP-UX has those included in the core OS:
$ ll /usr/lib/*dbm*; uname -rs
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 24576 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libdbm.1
-r--r--r-- 12 bin bin 6272 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libdbm.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/libdbm.sl -> ./libdbm.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libndbm.2
-r--r--r-- 12 bin bin 6272 Nov 14 2000
/usr/lib/libndbm.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/libndbm.sl -> ./libndbm.2
lr--r--r-T 1 root sys 27 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/llib-ldbm -> /usr/ccs/lib/lint/llib-ldbm
lr--r--r-T 1 root sys 25 Oct 5 2003
/usr/lib/llib-ldbm.ln -> /usr/ccs/lib/llib-ldbm.ln
HP-UX B.11.11
So I'd still say that pcre would be the first external prerequisite
for "core" exim if omitted from the distribution.
Cheers,
vt
