Will there be a version of the excellent pcre available that does NOT
require the ultimate of shit: libtool?
Using libtool makes life unacceptable hard on HP-UX and make building
on AIX impossible.
libtool was once created to hide all linking problems accross OS's,
but failed beyond belief. Ever tried to build a .a on AIX that contains
BOTH 32bit objects and 64bit objects on a project that uses libtool?
Ever used libtool on a machine where the compiler is GNU, but the
linker is not? Or vice versa?
It is such a shame that an awesome project like PCRE makes it close to
impossible to advertise its awesomeness on systems other than Linux.
FWIW AIX is *NOT* my choice. I have to work on it because customers
require us to support it, but for PCRE I will not do any updates on
PCRE anymore. I'm stuck to pcre-6.4
--
H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/
using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE
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