Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] configure does not look in /usr/include/pcre for pcre.h

[Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> I guess the question I was really asking is "is this another mess 
> similar to the one induced by Red Hat's brilliant idea of installing 
> libpcap's pcap.h in /usr/include/pcap, rather than in /usr/include where 
> it's installed on most other OSes, or is the standard location for it 
> /usr/include/pcre, so that the Ethereal configure script is wrong and 
> has always been wrong?"
>
> I.e., where is pcre.h installed by the standard PCRE distribution from 
> www.pcre.org and, if it's in "/usr/include" and/or "/usr/local/include", 
> did the creators of your system decide it should've been installed in 
> its own subdirectory - which, arguably, it should have been, just as 
> pcap.h arguably should have been, but trying to improve this *after the 
> fact* just requires configure scripts to go through more crap to cope 
> with the "improved" location as well as the standard one?

At least on SuSE Linux and Debian Woody pcre.h is in /usr/include
which I'd consider the appropriate location.

Users/Admins wo decided to introduce their own location are always
free to invoke "env CFLAGS=-I/my/path ./configure ..." to make
configure find /my/path/pcre.h (eventually CPPFLAGS is needed as
well, depending on the actual test -- I haven't tried).

No need to change Ethereal's configure, I think.


+Thomas

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