Re: PCRE library required to build Octave?

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 14 09 2010 kl. 12:42 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
> See the following bug report:
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31025
> 
> It seems that the PCRE library is required to build the Octave
> documentation.  Should we make that a requirement, or should we ensure
> that we avoid any dependency on features specific to PCRE in the
> Octave sources?

I seem to recall that the package manager also depends on PCRE (not
entirely sure, though), so I believe we also have a run-time requirement
for this library. So, I think we should just make PCRE a requirement for
Octave.

Soren