On 1/10/06, Jeremy Herbison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that Readline was added to LFS because: > 1) Bash can use it vs. its bundled readline functions. > 2) Lots of BLFS packages can link to it.
Readline was added mainly for reason 1. Rather than link in the internal readline statically, it made sense to use a system installed one and link to it dynamically to get the benefits of a shared library. > > I believe PCRE should be added to LFS because: > 1) Grep can use it vs. its bundled regex functions. > 2) Lots of BLFS packages can link to it. > > I, and I'm guessing many others, build PCRE right before Grep in > chapter 6. It doesn't seem to depend on anything else, it's UTF8 > compatible with current BLFS instructions, and seems fairly > trivial to add. Its also one of those essential libraries pretty > much everyone is going to install later anyhow. Just a thought. The executable pcregrep installed by pcre performs the same function that grep linked against pcre. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
