On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:35:34 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> 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
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