Re: Ncurses 6.2 and "error: Cannot find PCRE2 library"

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 5:33 PM Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "noloader" <noloader@gmail.com>
> | To: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
> | Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2020 5:30:47 PM
> | Subject: Ncurses 6.2 and "error: Cannot find PCRE2 library"
>
> | Hi Everyone,
> |
> | I'm configuring with --with-pcre2. PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
> | and --with-pkg-config-libdir are set. PCRE2 is in lib/, and its *.pc
> | files are in lib/pkgconfig.
> |
> | $ ./configure
> | ...
> | checking if you want to use PCRE2 for regular-expressions... yes
> | configure: error: Cannot find PCRE2 library
>
> You can probably answer the question by reading config.log

Thanks.

I have no idea the best way to work around the problem.

I'll go back to 6.1 until 6.3 is ready. There are too many problems with 6.2.

Jeff