Re: [pcre-dev] Dynamic symbols common to PCRE and PCRE2 libr…

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Petr Pisar wrote:
> regcomp
> regerror
> regexec
> regfree
>
[...]
> The good news is that the only common symbols (listed above) come from the
> POSIX-ish compatibility libraries (libpcreposix.so.0, respectively
> libpcre2-posix.so.0). And they are not used frequently. (E.g. Fedora 23
> distribution lists 18 software projects using the libpcreposix.so.0, in
> contrast to 138 users of libpcre.so.1.) However, there is still some chance.
>
I realized the best news is that API of libpcreposix.so.0 and
libpcre2-posix.so.0 is the same, so it's quite easy for distributions to modify
building of all PCRE users to build against only one PCRE version. So the
issue can be work-around on this level.

-- Petr