Re: [exim] Exim 4.96 on Devuan 4.0 build problem with PCRE2

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Author: Slavko
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.96 on Devuan 4.0 build problem with PCRE2
Dňa 5. februára 2023 23:37:02 UTC používateľ Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> napísal:
>On 05/02/2023 23:12, Mike Tubby via Exim-users wrote:
>> The thing is that I have pcre3-dev and the rest of the PCRE2 libraries installed (mine you someone will will have to explain why version numbers are going backwards) ... ;-)
>
>I'm not aware of a PCRE3 (and neither ia https://www.pcre.org/ AFAICS)...
>but I suspect your Local/Makefile is not including the right pcre library
>(which is the version 2 one).


AFAIK it is debian's "initiative" to provide old PCRE library until (́some
old) packages will migrate to PCRE2, not real v3 of PCRE. IMO very bad
(confusing) name choice, but i do not know the reason... See

https://sources.debian.org/src/pcre3/2%3A8.39-15/debian/README.Debian/

regards


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