Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Simeon F. Willbanks CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Different Versions Of PCRE for pcretest,
pcregrep & pcre-config
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Simeon F. Willbanks wrote:
> pcre-7.6 $ ./pcretest -C
> PCRE version 7.6 2008-01-28
OK, so it built correctly.
> I tried just coping pcretest & pcregrep directly to /usr/bin, and it
> seemed to work.
Well yes, it probably would. However, that isn't all that "make install"
does: it also installs the library. Also, if you build shared library,
the pcretest and pcregrep that you installed may be using a copy in the
build directory instead of the installed one. Actually, they must be,
since you haven't installed the library. So while they may work, there
may still be problems.
> Do you think this is OK?
I think it's dodgy. Please post the output from running "make install".
