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?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi