Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE autotools patch drg2

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:14:09PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Bob Rossi wrote:
>
> > OK, so, does it make sense to compile ucptable.c each time you want to
> > build pcre?
>
> What else can you do? You can't distribute a .o file. What have I
> misunderstood here? Or do you mean *create* ucptable.c? In order to do
> that, you need to have the Unicode data tables, and I really don't think
> we need to distribute them with every copy of PCRE. Oh, and you need
> Perl as well, so it isn't really on.
>
> But I think I'm misunderstanding you...

Yup, it's my fault though. I'm not thinking clearly this morning.

I was not compiling ucptable.c at all. I was successfully able to build
and link pcre. So, I'm wondering if my patch was broken because it did
not do this, or if it does not need to be compiled when building pcre.

I don't necessarily need to know the details, but the answer to the
above question will help me understand what we should do with this file.

It just struck me as odd that a patch to add 'make dist' support would
change the build system to start compiling a new file ....

Thanks,
Bob Rossi