"I have to admit I'm completely in the dark as to what functionality PCRE provides"
https://www.pcre.org/ (Sorry, beyond that I know nothing). Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 9:16 PM Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > > When I try ./configure --enable-R-shlib > > I get this error: > > configure: error: PCRE2 library and headers are required, or use --with-pcre1 > and PCRE >= 8.32 with UTF-8 support > > I have to admit I'm completely in the dark as to what functionality > PCRE provides. > > Next, I tried using --with-pcre1 but it made no difference. > > There are quite a lot of packages in the repository for Linux Mint > 17.2 with 'pcre' in the name and these are installed: > > > aptitude search pcre | grep ^i > i libpcre3 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression > Libra > i libpcre3:i386 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression > Libra > i libpcre3-dev - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression > Libra > i libpcrecpp0 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression > Libra > > Apparantly the '3' doesn't indicate an updated '2' version. The only > packages with prce2 in the name are these: > > > aptitude search pcre2 > v apertium-pcre2 - > v apertium-pcre2:i386 - > > Suggestions welcome. > > > -- > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > ___ Patrick Connolly > {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas > _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events > (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people > (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt > > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
