source: general/genlib/pcre.xml@ 4fa8bf55

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  <!ENTITY pcre-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-&pcre-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY pcre-md5sum "813850808894d99fb5b1c41ec6335d4f">
  <!ENTITY pcre-size "465 KB">
  <!ENTITY pcre-buildsize "5.3 MB">
  <!ENTITY pcre-time "0.11 SBU">
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<sect1 id="pcre" xreflabel="PCRE-&pcre-version;">
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  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
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  <title>PCRE-&pcre-version;</title>
  
  <indexterm zone="pcre">
    <primary sortas="a-PCRE">PCRE</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to PCRE</title>
    
    <para>The <application>PCRE</application> package contains
    <application>Perl</application> Compatible Regular Expression
    libraries. These are useful for implementing regular expression pattern
    matching using the same syntax and semantics as
    <application>Perl</application> 5.</para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pcre-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pcre-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &pcre-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &pcre-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &pcre-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &pcre-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    
  </sect2>
  
  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of PCRE</title>

    <para>Install <application>PCRE</application> by running 
    the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-utf8 &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make runtest</command>.</para>
    
    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
    
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you reinstall <application>grep</application> after installing 
    <application>pcre</application>, <application>grep</application> will get 
    linked against <application>pcre</application> and may cause problems if 
    <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is a separate mount point. To avoid 
    this, either pass the option <option>--disable-perl-regexp</option> when executing 
    <command>./configure</command> for <application>grep</application> or move 
    <filename class="libraryfile">libpcre</filename> to <filename 
    class="directory">/lib</filename> as follows.</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libpcre.so.* /lib/ &amp;&amp;
ln -v -sf ../../lib/libpcre.so.0 /usr/lib/libpcre.so</userinput></screen>
    
  </sect2>
  
  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--enable-utf8</parameter>: This switch includes the code for 
    handling UTF-8 character strings in the library.</para>
    
  </sect2>
  
  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
      
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pcregrep, pcretest, and pcre-config</seg>
        <seg>libpcre.[so,a] and libpcreposix.[so,a]</seg>
      <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>
    
    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="pcregrep">
        <term><command>pcregrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a <command>grep</command> that understands 
          <application>Perl</application> compatible regular expressions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="pcre pcregrep">
            <primary sortas="b-pcregrep">pcregrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
      <varlistentry id="pcretest">
        <term><command>pcretest</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>can test a <application>Perl</application> compatible 
          regular expression.</para>
          <indexterm zone="pcre pcretest">
            <primary sortas="b-pcretest">pcretest</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
      <varlistentry id="pcre-config">
        <term><command>pcre-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used during the compile process of programs linking to 
          the <application>PCRE</application> libraries.</para>
          <indexterm zone="pcre pcre-config">
            <primary sortas="b-pcre-config">pcre-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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