Re: [Caml-list] Building pcre-ocaml 7.0.2 on MinGW

[Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>]

It would certainly be easy to switch to pkg-config.  I just don't know
which tool is considered the most portable choice for pcre.  I haven't
heard from others yet that they had problems with pcre-config so I'm
not sure switching will improve things.  FWIW, both pcre-config and
pkg-config seem to be working fine on Mac OS X and on CentOS.

Regards,
Markus

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't tried anything with pcre but generally-speaking, these
> foo-config need to die in favor of pkg-config.
> My linux installation has around 70 of them and they all duplicate the
> same functionality, usually badly.
>
> Hopefully, there is pkg-config support for pcre and the best thing to do
> is probably to change the bindings to use pkg-config instead of
> pcre-config. The arguments are the same so it should be fairly painless
> (you only have to call "pkg-config libpcre" instead of "pcre-config").
>
> Hope this helps,
> Adrien Nader



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