Re: compilation warning

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 2/6/2010 2:20 PM:
>>> Rather than declaring to always fail and Pexecute to just abort(), maybe
>>> it would make more sense to omit their declarations altogether in that
>>> instance, and not even expose the command line option?  Or is that too
>>> drastic, and we should come up with some other alternative?
>> Taking a non-invasive approach, so far I've always solved this
>> by installing the required package.
> 
> Yes, and that's how I got past the error.  But either we should document
> pcre-devel as a dependency in HACKING, or we should still consider that
> not everyone necessarily wants pcre-enabled grep.

Or both? That is, all dependencies should be documented, including the
optional ones, and not all dependencies (such as PCRE support) should be
required.

Cheers,

TAA

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