From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26C7881792 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:00 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of markus.mottl@gmail.com) identity=pra; client-ip=209.85.212.175; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.mottl@gmail.com"; x-sender="markus.mottl@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of markus.mottl@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.175 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.85.212.175; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.mottl@gmail.com"; x-sender="markus.mottl@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mail-wi0-f175.google.com) identity=helo; client-ip=209.85.212.175; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="markus.mottl@gmail.com"; x-sender="postmaster@mail-wi0-f175.google.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqkBAOTfwVHRVdSvk2dsb2JhbABagzpJvxt4CBYOAQEBAQcLCwkUBCSCIwEBBUABFAcdAQMMBgULDS4hAQERAQUBHAYTh3sBAw+eKIxNgn+ERgoZJw1Yh3QBBQyMUYJlB4NhA5VagWeMIIM/FimEUSA X-IPAS-Result: AqkBAOTfwVHRVdSvk2dsb2JhbABagzpJvxt4CBYOAQEBAQcLCwkUBCSCIwEBBUABFAcdAQMMBgULDS4hAQERAQUBHAYTh3sBAw+eKIxNgn+ERgoZJw1Yh3QBBQyMUYJlB4NhA5VagWeMIIM/FimEUSA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,898,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="18325296" Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 19 Jun 2013 18:45:50 +0200 Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id m6so920020wiv.8 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:45:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=cSn2OJJ38MSiigTUs8N71GY6h74oedSIG815aNeDsuA=; b=Xe1bKik1EXbcw32bDj/wUQp7EnEXPcD7plS/audKz+3KvSi4U8eZ1I82jbew+GR7Pt G94CEH8tzUK9Iugj15+drMUCaqEjr4yw0Lhp+ObEEUzPkktneT01izhCQS0x3ocrvNSk LKlhKMIu7H9mBpFfsvNcJntwuh2f7LPB44xydwGZGROuTIwUnZjYpNcjAwVHt1og3v3a xtxoKN24JZfmAY6+nnLzLt6qSFlwAPohNGQcDE5qKi94tfrdKwGqWPrAEFuj5Jf9MoAH fB5SEFRmaOVVQaUg1yI2uSvzd6jBWCkG+xOOLG7qfEOFnITyIUHAmDaBD8kVD7tgdgl7 lZGw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.174.4 with SMTP id bo4mr2893586wjc.40.1371660350199; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.172.169 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:45:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130619163255.GA27108@notk.org> References: <004c01ce6cfa$63423430$29c69c90$@metastack.com> <20130619163255.GA27108@notk.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:50 -0400 Message-ID: From: Markus Mottl To: Adrien Nader Cc: David Allsopp , OCaml List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Building pcre-ocaml 7.0.2 on MinGW 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 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 -- Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info markus.mottl@gmail.com