[Gambas-user] Error compiling 1.9.24

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 19:24, Rob Kudla wrote:
> 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
>

Maybe you should use the version constants defined in pcre.h: PCRE_MAJOR and 
PCRE_MINOR.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini