BLFS - Target 6.5 or SVN?

2010-06-26 Thread DJ Lucas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The last decision was that we would prepare for BLFS-6.5. I personally have no interest in working towards a BLFS-6.5 release, but others may differ. We could create a branch if there is still interest in continuing along that goal, and now would be

Re: grep and pcre

2010-06-26 Thread Andrew Benton
On 26/06/10 13:57, Matthew Burgess wrote: > I've just done a plain './configure' run here, with pcre installed, and > it correctly detects the presence of the headers + libraries. So, I > think the instructions to use '--disable-perl-regexp' are correct. > Indeed, you are correct. My deviations ar

Re: Note about "Rationale for the Packages"

2010-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Hi, > > A French user has just told me something on IRC, I'd like to share with > you. In this section (cee subject), he doesn't agree, for Linux Kernel > package description, with "This package is the operating system". He > explains Linux Kernel is not the system i

Re: grep and pcre

2010-06-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:52:16 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > In chapter 5 the grep page says to use the option --disable-perl-regexp > to ensure that the grep program does not get linked against a Perl > Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library that may be present on the > host. > In my experien

Note about "Rationale for the Packages"

2010-06-26 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, A French user has just told me something on IRC, I'd like to share with you. In this section (cee subject), he doesn't agree, for Linux Kernel package description, with "This package is the operating system". He explains Linux Kernel is not the system itself. I think he's right. That's why I s

grep and pcre

2010-06-26 Thread Andrew Benton
In chapter 5 the grep page says to use the option --disable-perl-regexp to ensure that the grep program does not get linked against a Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library that may be present on the host. In my experience, grep has to be told to link against libpcre with --enable-pe