2007-06-07 klockan 19:35 skrev Jan de Groot: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 15:01 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > I think GRegex already requires pcre ? I can see that glib requires > > pcre > > 7.0 to build. So what's wrong ? > > glib ships an internal snapshot for that. So if people really really > insist on removing this external dependency, you could do so too. > > BTW: pcre is a base dependency on our distribution because grep depends > on it for PCRE-regex syntax support. Glib will get compiled against > system-pcre on Archlinux. Debian grep does not link to libpcre: $ ldd /bin/grep linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7ef4000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d9a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef5000 This is because libpcre is installed into /usr/lib/, which is not guaranteed to be available at boottime (might be on a different partition), while /bin/grep is an essential utility in init scripts and should be available at all times. mvrgr, Wouter -- :wq mail uws xs4all nl web http://uwstopia.nl never lived never lived :: i'm in love -- black rebel motorcycle club
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