Re: redo of 16845

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > 
> > We probably ought to leave this for 4.2.1, now (that doesn't need to
> > be quite as delayed as 4.2.0 was).  There's no point risking breaking
> > the make system somewhere at this point.
> 
> Should we perhaps pull the pcre module from 4.2.0 then? Though having
> zsh linked against a library in /usr won't affect most users, it'll be
> bad for anyone who is affected.

Mentioning it in the installation notes should be good enough, since
you can just set `link=no auto=no' in config.modules to avoid the
problem completely.  (Alternatively, we could set link=no in pcre.mdd.)
Either of these should avoid the need to remove it.

If somebody would like to compose the text indicating the problem...

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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