On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 22, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Instead of moving libpcre and making it quasi-essential, why not > > slightly modify grep so that it can dlopen libpcre if present. Not > Since grep is already modular this would be very easy to implement by > moving the Pcompile() and Pexecute() functions in a separate file to be > dlopen'ed. > OTOH, I'm still not sure that it would be worth the effort. > > > everyone needs the -P option to grep. But then, there is the problem of > > scripts that would use the -P option when libpcre is not present :-/ > Scripts using -P would need to depend on libcpre.
But packages including such scripts and not depending on libpcre would be difficult to find... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
