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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/9/11 5:51 PM, Benjamin Kehlet wrote:
> On 9 July 2011 13:35, Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 7/9/11 1:14 PM, Andre Massing wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2011 10:29 AM, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>>>> On 7/9/11 10:28 AM, Johan Hake wrote:
>>>>> It is needed by swig. If that is not installed. Swig need to be
>>>>> configured without pcre.
>>>>
>>>> As in it is needed by platforms that build swig manually?
>>>
>>> Yes I needed in the case of building it FEniCS on opensuse 11.4 /
>>> Tumbleweed. Patch will be submitted, but I remember that I ran into a
>>> missing libpcre3-dev. Swig version on opensuse is pre 2.0, so I needed
>>> to build it myself. It would nice to keep it with the upcoming new
>>> opensuse platform in mind.
>>
>> Thanks. Please remember to add it as part of your patch.
> 
> Don't know if this is of any interest, but I also recently had to
> build pcre from source for SLED11, and ended up a pcre.package file to
> Dorsal with this content
> NAME=pcre-8.12
> SOURCE=ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
> PACKING=.tar.gz
> BUILDCHAIN=autotools

Thank you, I've added it.

And what is with this sudden interest in Suse Linux? :)

Harish