[Gambas-user] Error compiling 1.9.24

[Rob Kudla]

On Wed February 8 2006 02:36, Eilert wrote:
> did a lot of programming with it and still am. This pcre thing
> was new, however, and I thought the configure script was
> smarter now and  it might be possible to compile the new
> version with a little tweaking, that's why I asked.

I looked it up, and indeed, pcre 4.4 is too old to use gb.pcre 
(because of a new error code in 4.5 which I exposed as a class 
constant.)  

If you feel like getting your hands dirty you can find the line 
in the source that references PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET (line 
368 of regexp.c) and replace PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET with some 
random number like 65535.  That should at least take care of 
your PCRE problems.

The constant will be meaningless in your Gambas install, but 
since that version of PCRE will never throw that error anyway it 
doesn't matter.

If I understood automake, I'd send a patch to make the configure 
script look for pcre 4.5 instead of just pcre so that other 
people wouldn't have this problem.

Rob