Re: Autotools libpcre issue

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:29:32PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding the Makefile generated by Autotools in the
> Nmap distribution:
>
> libpcre/pcre.h - is cleared upon make distclean thus leaving the SVN
> working directory dirty
>
> As I see it pcre.h is generated automatically by the pcre toolkit.
> There is a copy already in the SVN distribution and configure script
> creates another, thus overwriting the repo one. Upon make distclean,
> pcre.h is removed since it is supposed to have been generated by the
> build process. Is pcre.h in the SVN repo for reasons such as a
> workaround for when that header can not be generated or is it a bug?

Correct, pcre.h is there for Windows builds, which don't use Autotools.

We faced a similar problem with pcre_chartables.c. Check r5927; probably
we can do something similar.

David Fifield
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