} What you probably want, however, is for pcre.so to be dynamically
} linked to libpcre.so. For some reason or another, this is not
} happening when the makefile builds pcre.so. That, right there, is
} the bug.
Sounds like you understand the problem! (I'm still confused, because I
don't know what the difference bweteen pcre.so and libpcre.so is.)
Does this mean you know what the fix is too? :-)