PCRE 8.30 will break API

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Feb 10 00:03:11 UTC 2012


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It dlopen's the package so there is no automatic dependency.  To make
> up for this it requires pcre-devel, but in the light of this soname
> change that might be a bug.

It is against the guidelines to require a devel package. Instead, the 
software MUST be patched to dlopen the fully versioned so from the runtime 
package instead.

        Kevin Kofler



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