Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE autotools patch drg2

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Bob Rossi wrote:

> > Because ucptable.c wasn't mentioned at all in your Makefile.am :-) (This
> > was part of getting "make dist" to work)
>
> What I was really asking is, why did I not need this file to compile
> pcre? Why does the file exist. If you are now compiling it, what does it
> get linked into? why?

The file is #included in ucpsearchfuncs.c. It contains the source of a
table that is generated from the Unicode data tables by a script that
only has to be run when there is a new release of Unicode. I have so far
only run it twice. You do need the file in order to compile PCRE.

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.