Re: [PATCH] gnu: pcre: Update to 8.36 and enable JIT support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> From 5796cf1178fbcf41ef1c3d6406adb992d7e71dd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:56:00 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: pcre: Update to 8.36 and enable JIT support.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/pcre.scm (pcre): Update to 8.36.  Enable JIT support.
>>
>> OK!
>>
>> Is JIT supported everywhere, or is it automatically turned off on
>> platforms that don’t support it?
>
> According to the docs, passing "--enable-jit" will cause the compilation
> to fail on platforms not supported by their JIT, so we might have to
> make that flag conditional in the future.  However, the build and test
> suite passed on MIPS, and they support ARM as well, so I think it'll be
> fine for the foreseeable future.

OK, perfect.

Ludo’.