Ncurses 6.2 and "error: Cannot find PCRE2 library"

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I'm configuring with --with-pcre2. PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
and --with-pkg-config-libdir are set. PCRE2 is in lib/, and its *.pc
files are in lib/pkgconfig.

$ ./configure
...
checking if you want to use PCRE2 for regular-expressions... yes
configure: error: Cannot find PCRE2 library
Failed to configure ncurses

$ ls ~/tmp/ok2delete/lib/*pcre*
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-16.a
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-16.la
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-16.so
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-16.so.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-16.so.0.9.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-32.a
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-32.la
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-32.so
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-32.so.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-32.so.0.9.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-8.a
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-8.la
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-8.so
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0.9.0
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-posix.a
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-posix.la
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-posix.so
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-posix.so.2
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/libpcre2-posix.so.2.0.3

$ ls ~/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig/*pcre*
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre2-16.pc
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre2-32.pc
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre2-8.pc
/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig/libpcre2-posix.pc

Here are the variables from the environment.

 AUTOCONF_BUILD: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib/pkgconfig
       CPPFLAGS: -I/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/include -DNDEBUG
         CFLAGS: -g2 -O2 -march=native -fPIC -pthread
       CXXFLAGS: -g2 -O2 -march=native -fPIC -pthread
        LDFLAGS: -L/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib
-Wl,-R,'$ORIGIN/../lib' -Wl,-R,/home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib
-Wl,--enable-new-dtags
         LIBS: -ldl -lpthread

Any thoughts on how to work around the issue?

Thanks in advance.

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