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

[Anonymous Maarten]

I stumbled on the same problem with the 6.2 release.

This was fixed in https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/blame/7503e8d82292a2a0a4d8bb55bdf3f8a203159f68/aclocal.m4#L8757

See https://github.com/madebr/ncurses/commit/1db321181bb0eb2a0b2dca8d01c8773a03aa8108 for the minimum fix.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 23:33, 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

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