Re: patch for configure for pcre.h working with autoconf 2.59

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Nov-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| > It doesn't look like the patch will apply to the current sources
| 
| Sorry about that.  Here's an updated one, based on the lastest CVS
| configure.in source, which properly caches the results and gives good
| messages; I hope you will find it useful.
| 
| Note that it works by setting CPPFLAGS based on pcre-config, rather than
| the explicit checks for pcre.h and pcre/pcre.h, since CPPFLAGS is what
| AC_EGREP_CPP needs.  If you feel strongly that you don't want CPPFLAGS
| to be set for all compiles, let me know, and I'll rework it (again).

On my system, pcre-config --libs prints

  -L/usr/lib -lpcre

and --cflags prints an empty line.

I don't think it should be printing -L/usr/lib when it seems to know
enough to avoid printing -I/usr/include.

But anyway, I applied the patch.

Thanks,

jwe