%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ pcre-&pcre-version;.tar pcre PCRE The PCRE package contains Perl Compatible Regular Expression libraries. These are useful for implementing regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &pcre-md5sum; Download size: &pcre-size; Estimated disk space required: &pcre-buildsize; Estimated build time: &pcre-time; Install PCRE by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-utf8 && make To test the results, issue: make runtest. Now, as the root user: make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/pcre-&pcre-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/pcre-&pcre-version;/html && install -v -m644 doc/{Tech.Notes,*.txt} /usr/share/doc/pcre-&pcre-version; If you reinstall Grep after installing PCRE, Grep will get linked against PCRE and may cause problems if /usr is a separate mount point. To avoid this, either pass the option --disable-perl-regexp when executing ./configure for Grep or move libpcre to /lib as follows. mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib/ && ln -v -sf ../../lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so --enable-utf8: This switch includes the code for handling UTF-8 character strings in the library. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory pcregrep, pcretest, and pcre-config libpcre.[so,a], libpcrecpp.[so,a] and libpcreposix.[so,a] /usr/share/doc/pcre-&pcre-version; Short Descriptions pcregrep is a grep that understands Perl compatible regular expressions. pcregrep pcretest can test a Perl compatible regular expression. pcretest pcre-config is used during the compile process of programs linking to the PCRE libraries. pcre-config