Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 5:03 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 12-Feb-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> | Done. The patch is also attached. I confirmed that this has the intended 
> effect when running ./autogen-sh followed by ./configure on OSX, with and 
> without pcre-8.12 sudo make install'd to /usr/local.
> 
> If we are going to require pcre, shouldn't we also remove the check
> for the other regex library, as well as the code that uses it?  I
> don't see why we should keep that around if pcre is required.
> 
> jwe

I have no issue with this, of course - I didn't really understand what else was 
going on in configure.ac though. Does anyone else want to take a look at it?

The patch submission is at https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7462

Campbell