Author: Bob Rossi Date: To: pcre-dev CC: Daniel Richard G. Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE autotools patch drg2
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:01:58PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: > 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.
OK, so, does it make sense to compile ucptable.c each time you want to
build pcre?
