Re: have headers & libs, but cannot configure/make

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:56:31 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Yes, I checked in a couple of changes.  Now the configure script has
> 
>   OCTAVE_CHECK_LIB(pcre, PCRE,
>     [], [pcre.h pcre/pcre.h], [pcre_compile], [], [], [],
>     [libpcre], [REQUIRED])
> 
> the help text is
> 
>   --with-pcre-includedir=DIR
>                           look for PCRE include files in DIR
>   --with-pcre-libdir=DIR  look for PCRE libraries in DIR
>   --with-pcre=<lib>       use PCRE library <lib>
> 
> and configure fails with an error message if the PCRE library is not found
> or if you try to use --without-pcre.
> 
> I hope this is fixed now.

Wfm, thanks. Of course I don't have a chrooted PCRE to test against, but
at least looks symmetric now with all of the other libraries that did
work for the OP.

-- 
mike