Re: [Chicken-hackers] use host PCRE to build the Debian package

[felix winkelmann]

On Jan 7, 2008 2:46 AM, Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> wrote:
>         Currently, the Debian package for Chicken is being built with
>         the binaries statically linked to the embedded copy of PCRE.
>         Since I expect for Debian to do its best on supporting its own
>         PCRE package, I suggest changing the build system to link
>         against the host version of PCRE for building the Debian
>         package.
>

Ivan, thanks for the patch, but PCRE has been bundled with chicken
to actually avoid using the host-systems libpcre. I don't see much need
for making the build more complicated and also open up the doors for
library incompatibilities.


cheers,
felix