On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, V. T. Mueller wrote:
> Err, I doubt that. At least, even an old and minimally installed HP-UX has
> those included in the core OS:
It was certainly true in the early days of Exim (i.e. at the end of last
century) that some Linux distributions (and possibly other OS) did not
include a DB library by default. A search of the very old mailing list
archives should turn up some threads (if anyone can be bothered to
look).
> So I'd still say that pcre would be the first external prerequisite for "core"
> exim if omitted from the distribution.
Maybe today, yes, but not historically!
What I am thinking is that, in the longer term, PCRE may reach the same
status as the DB libraries.
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