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| README file for PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expression library)
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| -----------------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| The latest release of PCRE is always available in three alternative formats
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| from:
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| 
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|   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.tar.gz
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|   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.tar.bz2
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|   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.zip
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| 
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| There is a mailing list for discussion about the development of PCRE at
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| 
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|   pcre-dev@exim.org
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| 
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| Please read the NEWS file if you are upgrading from a previous release.
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| The contents of this README file are:
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| 
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|   The PCRE APIs
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|   Documentation for PCRE
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|   Contributions by users of PCRE
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|   Building PCRE on non-Unix systems
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|   Building PCRE on Unix-like systems
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|   Retrieving configuration information on Unix-like systems
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|   Shared libraries on Unix-like systems
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|   Cross-compiling on Unix-like systems
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|   Using HP's ANSI C++ compiler (aCC)
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|   Making new tarballs
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|   Testing PCRE
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|   Character tables
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|   File manifest
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| 
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| 
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| The PCRE APIs
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| -------------
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| 
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| PCRE is written in C, and it has its own API. The distribution also includes a
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| set of C++ wrapper functions (see the pcrecpp man page for details), courtesy
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| of Google Inc.
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| 
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| In addition, there is a set of C wrapper functions that are based on the POSIX
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| regular expression API (see the pcreposix man page). These end up in the
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| library called libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling
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| interface to PCRE; the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax
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| and semantics. The POSIX API is restricted, and does not give full access to
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| all of PCRE's facilities.
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| 
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| The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h. The
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| official POSIX name is regex.h, but I did not want to risk possible problems
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| with existing files of that name by distributing it that way. To use PCRE with
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| an existing program that uses the POSIX API, pcreposix.h will have to be
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| renamed or pointed at by a link.
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| 
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| If you are using the POSIX interface to PCRE and there is already a POSIX regex
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| library installed on your system, as well as worrying about the regex.h header
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| file (as mentioned above), you must also take care when linking programs to
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| ensure that they link with PCRE's libpcreposix library. Otherwise they may pick
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| up the POSIX functions of the same name from the other library.
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| 
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| One way of avoiding this confusion is to compile PCRE with the addition of
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| -Dregcomp=PCREregcomp (and similarly for the other POSIX functions) to the
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| compiler flags (CFLAGS if you are using "configure" -- see below). This has the
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| effect of renaming the functions so that the names no longer clash. Of course,
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| you have to do the same thing for your applications, or write them using the
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| new names.
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| 
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| 
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| Documentation for PCRE
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| ----------------------
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| 
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| If you install PCRE in the normal way on a Unix-like system, you will end up
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| with a set of man pages whose names all start with "pcre". The one that is just
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| called "pcre" lists all the others. In addition to these man pages, the PCRE
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| documentation is supplied in two other forms:
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| 
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|   1. There are files called doc/pcre.txt, doc/pcregrep.txt, and
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|      doc/pcretest.txt in the source distribution. The first of these is a
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|      concatenation of the text forms of all the section 3 man pages except
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|      those that summarize individual functions. The other two are the text
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|      forms of the section 1 man pages for the pcregrep and pcretest commands.
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|      These text forms are provided for ease of scanning with text editors or
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|      similar tools. They are installed in <prefix>/share/doc/pcre, where
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|      <prefix> is the installation prefix (defaulting to /usr/local).
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| 
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|   2. A set of files containing all the documentation in HTML form, hyperlinked
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|      in various ways, and rooted in a file called index.html, is distributed in
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|      doc/html and installed in <prefix>/share/doc/pcre/html.
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| 
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| Users of PCRE have contributed files containing the documentation for various
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| releases in CHM format. These can be found in the Contrib directory of the FTP
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| site (see next section).
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| 
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| 
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| Contributions by users of PCRE
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| ------------------------------
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| 
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| You can find contributions from PCRE users in the directory
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| 
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|   ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Contrib
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| 
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| There is a README file giving brief descriptions of what they are. Some are
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| complete in themselves; others are pointers to URLs containing relevant files.
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| Some of this material is likely to be well out-of-date. Several of the earlier
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| contributions provided support for compiling PCRE on various flavours of
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| Windows (I myself do not use Windows). Nowadays there is more Windows support
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| in the standard distribution, so these contibutions have been archived.
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| 
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| 
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| Building PCRE on non-Unix systems
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| ---------------------------------
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| 
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| For a non-Unix system, please read the comments in the file NON-UNIX-USE,
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| though if your system supports the use of "configure" and "make" you may be
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| able to build PCRE in the same way as for Unix-like systems. PCRE can also be
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| configured in many platform environments using the GUI facility of CMake's
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| CMakeSetup. It creates Makefiles, solution files, etc.
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| 
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| PCRE has been compiled on many different operating systems. It should be
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| straightforward to build PCRE on any system that has a Standard C compiler and
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| library, because it uses only Standard C functions.
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| 
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| 
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| Building PCRE on Unix-like systems
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| ----------------------------------
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| 
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| If you are using HP's ANSI C++ compiler (aCC), please see the special note
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| in the section entitled "Using HP's ANSI C++ compiler (aCC)" below.
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| 
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| The following instructions assume the use of the widely used "configure, make,
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| make install" process. There is also support for CMake in the PCRE
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| distribution; there are some comments about using CMake in the NON-UNIX-USE
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| file, though it can also be used in Unix-like systems.
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| 
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| To build PCRE on a Unix-like system, first run the "configure" command from the
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| PCRE distribution directory, with your current directory set to the directory
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| where you want the files to be created. This command is a standard GNU
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| "autoconf" configuration script, for which generic instructions are supplied in
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| the file INSTALL.
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| 
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| Most commonly, people build PCRE within its own distribution directory, and in
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| this case, on many systems, just running "./configure" is sufficient. However,
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| the usual methods of changing standard defaults are available. For example:
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| 
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| CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall' ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
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| 
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| specifies that the C compiler should be run with the flags '-O2 -Wall' instead
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| of the default, and that "make install" should install PCRE under /opt/local
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| instead of the default /usr/local.
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| 
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| If you want to build in a different directory, just run "configure" with that
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| directory as current. For example, suppose you have unpacked the PCRE source
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| into /source/pcre/pcre-xxx, but you want to build it in /build/pcre/pcre-xxx:
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| 
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| cd /build/pcre/pcre-xxx
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| /source/pcre/pcre-xxx/configure
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| 
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| PCRE is written in C and is normally compiled as a C library. However, it is
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| possible to build it as a C++ library, though the provided building apparatus
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| does not have any features to support this.
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| 
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| There are some optional features that can be included or omitted from the PCRE
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| library. You can read more about them in the pcrebuild man page.
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| 
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| . If you want to suppress the building of the C++ wrapper library, you can add
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|   --disable-cpp to the "configure" command. Otherwise, when "configure" is run,
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|   it will try to find a C++ compiler and C++ header files, and if it succeeds,
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|   it will try to build the C++ wrapper.
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| 
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| . If you want to make use of the support for UTF-8 Unicode character strings in
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|   PCRE, you must add --enable-utf8 to the "configure" command. Without it, the
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|   code for handling UTF-8 is not included in the library. Even when included,
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|   it still has to be enabled by an option at run time. When PCRE is compiled
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|   with this option, its input can only either be ASCII or UTF-8, even when
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|   running on EBCDIC platforms. It is not possible to use both --enable-utf8 and
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|   --enable-ebcdic at the same time.
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| 
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| . If, in addition to support for UTF-8 character strings, you want to include
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|   support for the \P, \p, and \X sequences that recognize Unicode character
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|   properties, you must add --enable-unicode-properties to the "configure"
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|   command. This adds about 30K to the size of the library (in the form of a
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|   property table); only the basic two-letter properties such as Lu are
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|   supported.
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| 
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| . You can build PCRE to recognize either CR or LF or the sequence CRLF or any
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|   of the preceding, or any of the Unicode newline sequences as indicating the
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|   end of a line. Whatever you specify at build time is the default; the caller
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|   of PCRE can change the selection at run time. The default newline indicator
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|   is a single LF character (the Unix standard). You can specify the default
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|   newline indicator by adding --enable-newline-is-cr or --enable-newline-is-lf
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|   or --enable-newline-is-crlf or --enable-newline-is-anycrlf or
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|   --enable-newline-is-any to the "configure" command, respectively.
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| 
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|   If you specify --enable-newline-is-cr or --enable-newline-is-crlf, some of
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|   the standard tests will fail, because the lines in the test files end with
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|   LF. Even if the files are edited to change the line endings, there are likely
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|   to be some failures. With --enable-newline-is-anycrlf or
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|   --enable-newline-is-any, many tests should succeed, but there may be some
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|   failures.
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| 
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| . By default, the sequence \R in a pattern matches any Unicode line ending
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|   sequence. This is independent of the option specifying what PCRE considers to
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|   be the end of a line (see above). However, the caller of PCRE can restrict \R
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|   to match only CR, LF, or CRLF. You can make this the default by adding
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|   --enable-bsr-anycrlf to the "configure" command (bsr = "backslash R").
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| 
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| . When called via the POSIX interface, PCRE uses malloc() to get additional
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|   storage for processing capturing parentheses if there are more than 10 of
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|   them in a pattern. You can increase this threshold by setting, for example,
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| 
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|   --with-posix-malloc-threshold=20
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| 
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|   on the "configure" command.
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| 
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| . PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses.
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|   If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match fails. The default is ten
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|   million. You can change the default by setting, for example,
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| 
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|   --with-match-limit=500000
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| 
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|   on the "configure" command. This is just the default; individual calls to
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|   pcre_exec() can supply their own value. There is more discussion on the
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|   pcreapi man page.
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| 
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| . There is a separate counter that limits the depth of recursive function calls
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|   during a matching process. This also has a default of ten million, which is
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|   essentially "unlimited". You can change the default by setting, for example,
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| 
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|   --with-match-limit-recursion=500000
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| 
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|   Recursive function calls use up the runtime stack; running out of stack can
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|   cause programs to crash in strange ways. There is a discussion about stack
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|   sizes in the pcrestack man page.
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| 
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| . The default maximum compiled pattern size is around 64K. You can increase
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|   this by adding --with-link-size=3 to the "configure" command. You can
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|   increase it even more by setting --with-link-size=4, but this is unlikely
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|   ever to be necessary. Increasing the internal link size will reduce
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|   performance.
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| 
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| . You can build PCRE so that its internal match() function that is called from
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|   pcre_exec() does not call itself recursively. Instead, it uses memory blocks
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|   obtained from the heap via the special functions pcre_stack_malloc() and
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|   pcre_stack_free() to save data that would otherwise be saved on the stack. To
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|   build PCRE like this, use
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| 
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|   --disable-stack-for-recursion
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| 
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|   on the "configure" command. PCRE runs more slowly in this mode, but it may be
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|   necessary in environments with limited stack sizes. This applies only to the
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|   pcre_exec() function; it does not apply to pcre_dfa_exec(), which does not
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|   use deeply nested recursion. There is a discussion about stack sizes in the
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|   pcrestack man page.
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| 
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| . For speed, PCRE uses four tables for manipulating and identifying characters
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|   whose code point values are less than 256. By default, it uses a set of
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|   tables for ASCII encoding that is part of the distribution. If you specify
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| 
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|   --enable-rebuild-chartables
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| 
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|   a program called dftables is compiled and run in the default C locale when
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|   you obey "make". It builds a source file called pcre_chartables.c. If you do
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|   not specify this option, pcre_chartables.c is created as a copy of
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|   pcre_chartables.c.dist. See "Character tables" below for further information.
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| 
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| . It is possible to compile PCRE for use on systems that use EBCDIC as their
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|   character code (as opposed to ASCII) by specifying
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| 
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|   --enable-ebcdic
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| 
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|   This automatically implies --enable-rebuild-chartables (see above). However,
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|   when PCRE is built this way, it always operates in EBCDIC. It cannot support
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|   both EBCDIC and UTF-8.
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| 
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| . It is possible to compile pcregrep to use libz and/or libbz2, in order to
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|   read .gz and .bz2 files (respectively), by specifying one or both of
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| 
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|   --enable-pcregrep-libz
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|   --enable-pcregrep-libbz2
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| 
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|   Of course, the relevant libraries must be installed on your system.
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| 
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| . It is possible to compile pcretest so that it links with the libreadline
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|   library, by specifying
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| 
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|   --enable-pcretest-libreadline
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| 
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|   If this is done, when pcretest's input is from a terminal, it reads it using
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|   the readline() function. This provides line-editing and history facilities.
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|   Note that libreadline is GPL-licenced, so if you distribute a binary of
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|   pcretest linked in this way, there may be licensing issues.
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| 
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|   Setting this option causes the -lreadline option to be added to the pcretest
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|   build. In many operating environments with a sytem-installed readline
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|   library this is sufficient. However, in some environments (e.g. if an
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|   unmodified distribution version of readline is in use), it may be necessary
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|   to specify something like LIBS="-lncurses" as well. This is because, to quote
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|   the readline INSTALL, "Readline uses the termcap functions, but does not link
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|   with the termcap or curses library itself, allowing applications which link
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|   with readline the to choose an appropriate library." If you get error
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|   messages about missing functions tgetstr, tgetent, tputs, tgetflag, or tgoto,
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|   this is the problem, and linking with the ncurses library should fix it.
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| 
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| The "configure" script builds the following files for the basic C library:
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| 
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| . Makefile is the makefile that builds the library
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| . config.h contains build-time configuration options for the library
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| . pcre.h is the public PCRE header file
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| . pcre-config is a script that shows the settings of "configure" options
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| . libpcre.pc is data for the pkg-config command
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| . libtool is a script that builds shared and/or static libraries
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| . RunTest is a script for running tests on the basic C library
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| . RunGrepTest is a script for running tests on the pcregrep command
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| 
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| Versions of config.h and pcre.h are distributed in the PCRE tarballs under
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| the names config.h.generic and pcre.h.generic. These are provided for the
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| benefit of those who have to built PCRE without the benefit of "configure". If
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| you use "configure", the .generic versions are not used.
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| 
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| If a C++ compiler is found, the following files are also built:
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| 
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| . libpcrecpp.pc is data for the pkg-config command
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| . pcrecpparg.h is a header file for programs that call PCRE via the C++ wrapper
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| . pcre_stringpiece.h is the header for the C++ "stringpiece" functions
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| 
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| The "configure" script also creates config.status, which is an executable
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| script that can be run to recreate the configuration, and config.log, which
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| contains compiler output from tests that "configure" runs.
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| 
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| Once "configure" has run, you can run "make". It builds two libraries, called
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| libpcre and libpcreposix, a test program called pcretest, and the pcregrep
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| command. If a C++ compiler was found on your system, "make" also builds the C++
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| wrapper library, which is called libpcrecpp, and some test programs called
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| pcrecpp_unittest, pcre_scanner_unittest, and pcre_stringpiece_unittest.
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| Building the C++ wrapper can be disabled by adding --disable-cpp to the
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| "configure" command.
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| 
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| The command "make check" runs all the appropriate tests. Details of the PCRE
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| tests are given below in a separate section of this document.
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| 
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| You can use "make install" to install PCRE into live directories on your
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| system. The following are installed (file names are all relative to the
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| <prefix> that is set when "configure" is run):
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| 
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|   Commands (bin):
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|     pcretest
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|     pcregrep
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|     pcre-config
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| 
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|   Libraries (lib):
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|     libpcre
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|     libpcreposix
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|     libpcrecpp (if C++ support is enabled)
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| 
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|   Configuration information (lib/pkgconfig):
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|     libpcre.pc
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|     libpcrecpp.pc (if C++ support is enabled)
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| 
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|   Header files (include):
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|     pcre.h
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|     pcreposix.h
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|     pcre_scanner.h      )
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|     pcre_stringpiece.h  ) if C++ support is enabled
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|     pcrecpp.h           )
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|     pcrecpparg.h        )
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| 
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|   Man pages (share/man/man{1,3}):
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|     pcregrep.1
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|     pcretest.1
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|     pcre.3
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|     pcre*.3 (lots more pages, all starting "pcre")
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| 
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|   HTML documentation (share/doc/pcre/html):
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|     index.html
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|     *.html (lots more pages, hyperlinked from index.html)
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| 
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|   Text file documentation (share/doc/pcre):
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|     AUTHORS
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|     COPYING
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|     ChangeLog
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|     LICENCE
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|     NEWS
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|     README
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|     pcre.txt       (a concatenation of the man(3) pages)
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|     pcretest.txt   the pcretest man page
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|     pcregrep.txt   the pcregrep man page
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| 
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| If you want to remove PCRE from your system, you can run "make uninstall".
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| This removes all the files that "make install" installed. However, it does not
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| remove any directories, because these are often shared with other programs.
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| 
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| 
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| Retrieving configuration information on Unix-like systems
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| ---------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| Running "make install" installs the command pcre-config, which can be used to
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| recall information about the PCRE configuration and installation. For example:
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| 
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|   pcre-config --version
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| 
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| prints the version number, and
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| 
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|   pcre-config --libs
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| 
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| outputs information about where the library is installed. This command can be
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| included in makefiles for programs that use PCRE, saving the programmer from
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| having to remember too many details.
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| 
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| The pkg-config command is another system for saving and retrieving information
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| about installed libraries. Instead of separate commands for each library, a
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| single command is used. For example:
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| 
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|   pkg-config --cflags pcre
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| 
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| The data is held in *.pc files that are installed in a directory called
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| <prefix>/lib/pkgconfig.
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| 
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| 
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| Shared libraries on Unix-like systems
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| -------------------------------------
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| 
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| The default distribution builds PCRE as shared libraries and static libraries,
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| as long as the operating system supports shared libraries. Shared library
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| support relies on the "libtool" script which is built as part of the
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| "configure" process.
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| 
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| The libtool script is used to compile and link both shared and static
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| libraries. They are placed in a subdirectory called .libs when they are newly
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| built. The programs pcretest and pcregrep are built to use these uninstalled
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| libraries (by means of wrapper scripts in the case of shared libraries). When
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| you use "make install" to install shared libraries, pcregrep and pcretest are
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| automatically re-built to use the newly installed shared libraries before being
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| installed themselves. However, the versions left in the build directory still
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| use the uninstalled libraries.
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| 
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| To build PCRE using static libraries only you must use --disable-shared when
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| configuring it. For example:
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| 
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| ./configure --prefix=/usr/gnu --disable-shared
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| 
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| Then run "make" in the usual way. Similarly, you can use --disable-static to
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| build only shared libraries.
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| 
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| 
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| Cross-compiling on Unix-like systems
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| ------------------------------------
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| 
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| You can specify CC and CFLAGS in the normal way to the "configure" command, in
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| order to cross-compile PCRE for some other host. However, you should NOT
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| specify --enable-rebuild-chartables, because if you do, the dftables.c source
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| file is compiled and run on the local host, in order to generate the inbuilt
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| character tables (the pcre_chartables.c file). This will probably not work,
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| because dftables.c needs to be compiled with the local compiler, not the cross
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| compiler.
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| 
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| When --enable-rebuild-chartables is not specified, pcre_chartables.c is created
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| by making a copy of pcre_chartables.c.dist, which is a default set of tables
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| that assumes ASCII code. Cross-compiling with the default tables should not be
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| a problem.
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| 
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| If you need to modify the character tables when cross-compiling, you should
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| move pcre_chartables.c.dist out of the way, then compile dftables.c by hand and
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| run it on the local host to make a new version of pcre_chartables.c.dist.
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| Then when you cross-compile PCRE this new version of the tables will be used.
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| 
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| 
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| Using HP's ANSI C++ compiler (aCC)
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| ----------------------------------
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| 
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| Unless C++ support is disabled by specifying the "--disable-cpp" option of the
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| "configure" script, you must include the "-AA" option in the CXXFLAGS
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| environment variable in order for the C++ components to compile correctly.
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| 
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| Also, note that the aCC compiler on PA-RISC platforms may have a defect whereby
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| needed libraries fail to get included when specifying the "-AA" compiler
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| option. If you experience unresolved symbols when linking the C++ programs,
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| use the workaround of specifying the following environment variable prior to
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| running the "configure" script:
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| 
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|   CXXLDFLAGS="-lstd_v2 -lCsup_v2"
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| 
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| 
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| Making new tarballs
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| -------------------
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| 
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| The command "make dist" creates three PCRE tarballs, in tar.gz, tar.bz2, and
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| zip formats. The command "make distcheck" does the same, but then does a trial
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| build of the new distribution to ensure that it works.
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| 
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| If you have modified any of the man page sources in the doc directory, you
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| should first run the PrepareRelease script before making a distribution. This
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| script creates the .txt and HTML forms of the documentation from the man pages.
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| 
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| 
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| Testing PCRE
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| ------------
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| 
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| To test the basic PCRE library on a Unix system, run the RunTest script that is
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| created by the configuring process. There is also a script called RunGrepTest
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| that tests the options of the pcregrep command. If the C++ wrapper library is
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| built, three test programs called pcrecpp_unittest, pcre_scanner_unittest, and
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| pcre_stringpiece_unittest are also built.
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| 
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| Both the scripts and all the program tests are run if you obey "make check" or
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| "make test". For other systems, see the instructions in NON-UNIX-USE.
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| 
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| The RunTest script runs the pcretest test program (which is documented in its
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| own man page) on each of the testinput files in the testdata directory in
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| turn, and compares the output with the contents of the corresponding testoutput
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| files. A file called testtry is used to hold the main output from pcretest
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| (testsavedregex is also used as a working file). To run pcretest on just one of
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| the test files, give its number as an argument to RunTest, for example:
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| 
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|   RunTest 2
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| 
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| The first test file can also be fed directly into the perltest.pl script to
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| check that Perl gives the same results. The only difference you should see is
 | |
| in the first few lines, where the Perl version is given instead of the PCRE
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| version.
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| 
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| The second set of tests check pcre_fullinfo(), pcre_info(), pcre_study(),
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| pcre_copy_substring(), pcre_get_substring(), pcre_get_substring_list(), error
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| detection, and run-time flags that are specific to PCRE, as well as the POSIX
 | |
| wrapper API. It also uses the debugging flags to check some of the internals of
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| pcre_compile().
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| 
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| If you build PCRE with a locale setting that is not the standard C locale, the
 | |
| character tables may be different (see next paragraph). In some cases, this may
 | |
| cause failures in the second set of tests. For example, in a locale where the
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| isprint() function yields TRUE for characters in the range 128-255, the use of
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| [:isascii:] inside a character class defines a different set of characters, and
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| this shows up in this test as a difference in the compiled code, which is being
 | |
| listed for checking. Where the comparison test output contains [\x00-\x7f] the
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| test will contain [\x00-\xff], and similarly in some other cases. This is not a
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| bug in PCRE.
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| 
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| The third set of tests checks pcre_maketables(), the facility for building a
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| set of character tables for a specific locale and using them instead of the
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| default tables. The tests make use of the "fr_FR" (French) locale. Before
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| running the test, the script checks for the presence of this locale by running
 | |
| the "locale" command. If that command fails, or if it doesn't include "fr_FR"
 | |
| in the list of available locales, the third test cannot be run, and a comment
 | |
| is output to say why. If running this test produces instances of the error
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| 
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|   ** Failed to set locale "fr_FR"
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| 
 | |
| in the comparison output, it means that locale is not available on your system,
 | |
| despite being listed by "locale". This does not mean that PCRE is broken.
 | |
| 
 | |
| [If you are trying to run this test on Windows, you may be able to get it to
 | |
| work by changing "fr_FR" to "french" everywhere it occurs. Alternatively, use
 | |
| RunTest.bat. The version of RunTest.bat included with PCRE 7.4 and above uses
 | |
| Windows versions of test 2. More info on using RunTest.bat is included in the
 | |
| document entitled NON-UNIX-USE.]
 | |
| 
 | |
| The fourth test checks the UTF-8 support. It is not run automatically unless
 | |
| PCRE is built with UTF-8 support. To do this you must set --enable-utf8 when
 | |
| running "configure". This file can be also fed directly to the perltest script,
 | |
| provided you are running Perl 5.8 or higher. (For Perl 5.6, a small patch,
 | |
| commented in the script, can be be used.)
 | |
| 
 | |
| The fifth test checks error handling with UTF-8 encoding, and internal UTF-8
 | |
| features of PCRE that are not relevant to Perl.
 | |
| 
 | |
| The sixth test checks the support for Unicode character properties. It it not
 | |
| run automatically unless PCRE is built with Unicode property support. To to
 | |
| this you must set --enable-unicode-properties when running "configure".
 | |
| 
 | |
| The seventh, eighth, and ninth tests check the pcre_dfa_exec() alternative
 | |
| matching function, in non-UTF-8 mode, UTF-8 mode, and UTF-8 mode with Unicode
 | |
| property support, respectively. The eighth and ninth tests are not run
 | |
| automatically unless PCRE is build with the relevant support.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Character tables
 | |
| ----------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| For speed, PCRE uses four tables for manipulating and identifying characters
 | |
| whose code point values are less than 256. The final argument of the
 | |
| pcre_compile() function is a pointer to a block of memory containing the
 | |
| concatenated tables. A call to pcre_maketables() can be used to generate a set
 | |
| of tables in the current locale. If the final argument for pcre_compile() is
 | |
| passed as NULL, a set of default tables that is built into the binary is used.
 | |
| 
 | |
| The source file called pcre_chartables.c contains the default set of tables. By
 | |
| default, this is created as a copy of pcre_chartables.c.dist, which contains
 | |
| tables for ASCII coding. However, if --enable-rebuild-chartables is specified
 | |
| for ./configure, a different version of pcre_chartables.c is built by the
 | |
| program dftables (compiled from dftables.c), which uses the ANSI C character
 | |
| handling functions such as isalnum(), isalpha(), isupper(), islower(), etc. to
 | |
| build the table sources. This means that the default C locale which is set for
 | |
| your system will control the contents of these default tables. You can change
 | |
| the default tables by editing pcre_chartables.c and then re-building PCRE. If
 | |
| you do this, you should take care to ensure that the file does not get
 | |
| automatically re-generated. The best way to do this is to move
 | |
| pcre_chartables.c.dist out of the way and replace it with your customized
 | |
| tables.
 | |
| 
 | |
| When the dftables program is run as a result of --enable-rebuild-chartables,
 | |
| it uses the default C locale that is set on your system. It does not pay
 | |
| attention to the LC_xxx environment variables. In other words, it uses the
 | |
| system's default locale rather than whatever the compiling user happens to have
 | |
| set. If you really do want to build a source set of character tables in a
 | |
| locale that is specified by the LC_xxx variables, you can run the dftables
 | |
| program by hand with the -L option. For example:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   ./dftables -L pcre_chartables.c.special
 | |
| 
 | |
| The first two 256-byte tables provide lower casing and case flipping functions,
 | |
| respectively. The next table consists of three 32-byte bit maps which identify
 | |
| digits, "word" characters, and white space, respectively. These are used when
 | |
| building 32-byte bit maps that represent character classes for code points less
 | |
| than 256.
 | |
| 
 | |
| The final 256-byte table has bits indicating various character types, as
 | |
| follows:
 | |
| 
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|     1   white space character
 | |
|     2   letter
 | |
|     4   decimal digit
 | |
|     8   hexadecimal digit
 | |
|    16   alphanumeric or '_'
 | |
|   128   regular expression metacharacter or binary zero
 | |
| 
 | |
| You should not alter the set of characters that contain the 128 bit, as that
 | |
| will cause PCRE to malfunction.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| File manifest
 | |
| -------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| The distribution should contain the following files:
 | |
| 
 | |
| (A) Source files of the PCRE library functions and their headers:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   dftables.c              auxiliary program for building pcre_chartables.c
 | |
|                             when --enable-rebuild-chartables is specified
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcre_chartables.c.dist  a default set of character tables that assume ASCII
 | |
|                             coding; used, unless --enable-rebuild-chartables is
 | |
|                             specified, by copying to pcre_chartables.c
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcreposix.c             )
 | |
|   pcre_compile.c          )
 | |
|   pcre_config.c           )
 | |
|   pcre_dfa_exec.c         )
 | |
|   pcre_exec.c             )
 | |
|   pcre_fullinfo.c         )
 | |
|   pcre_get.c              ) sources for the functions in the library,
 | |
|   pcre_globals.c          )   and some internal functions that they use
 | |
|   pcre_info.c             )
 | |
|   pcre_maketables.c       )
 | |
|   pcre_newline.c          )
 | |
|   pcre_ord2utf8.c         )
 | |
|   pcre_refcount.c         )
 | |
|   pcre_study.c            )
 | |
|   pcre_tables.c           )
 | |
|   pcre_try_flipped.c      )
 | |
|   pcre_ucd.c              )
 | |
|   pcre_valid_utf8.c       )
 | |
|   pcre_version.c          )
 | |
|   pcre_xclass.c           )
 | |
|   pcre_printint.src       ) debugging function that is #included in pcretest,
 | |
|                           )   and can also be #included in pcre_compile()
 | |
|   pcre.h.in               template for pcre.h when built by "configure"
 | |
|   pcreposix.h             header for the external POSIX wrapper API
 | |
|   pcre_internal.h         header for internal use
 | |
|   ucp.h                   header for Unicode property handling
 | |
| 
 | |
|   config.h.in             template for config.h, which is built by "configure"
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcrecpp.h               public header file for the C++ wrapper
 | |
|   pcrecpparg.h.in         template for another C++ header file
 | |
|   pcre_scanner.h          public header file for C++ scanner functions
 | |
|   pcrecpp.cc              )
 | |
|   pcre_scanner.cc         ) source for the C++ wrapper library
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcre_stringpiece.h.in   template for pcre_stringpiece.h, the header for the
 | |
|                             C++ stringpiece functions
 | |
|   pcre_stringpiece.cc     source for the C++ stringpiece functions
 | |
| 
 | |
| (B) Source files for programs that use PCRE:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcredemo.c              simple demonstration of coding calls to PCRE
 | |
|   pcregrep.c              source of a grep utility that uses PCRE
 | |
|   pcretest.c              comprehensive test program
 | |
| 
 | |
| (C) Auxiliary files:
 | |
| 
 | |
|   132html                 script to turn "man" pages into HTML
 | |
|   AUTHORS                 information about the author of PCRE
 | |
|   ChangeLog               log of changes to the code
 | |
|   CleanTxt                script to clean nroff output for txt man pages
 | |
|   Detrail                 script to remove trailing spaces
 | |
|   HACKING                 some notes about the internals of PCRE
 | |
|   INSTALL                 generic installation instructions
 | |
|   LICENCE                 conditions for the use of PCRE
 | |
|   COPYING                 the same, using GNU's standard name
 | |
|   Makefile.in             ) template for Unix Makefile, which is built by
 | |
|                           )   "configure"
 | |
|   Makefile.am             ) the automake input that was used to create
 | |
|                           )   Makefile.in
 | |
|   NEWS                    important changes in this release
 | |
|   NON-UNIX-USE            notes on building PCRE on non-Unix systems
 | |
|   PrepareRelease          script to make preparations for "make dist"
 | |
|   README                  this file
 | |
|   RunTest                 a Unix shell script for running tests
 | |
|   RunGrepTest             a Unix shell script for pcregrep tests
 | |
|   aclocal.m4              m4 macros (generated by "aclocal")
 | |
|   config.guess            ) files used by libtool,
 | |
|   config.sub              )   used only when building a shared library
 | |
|   configure               a configuring shell script (built by autoconf)
 | |
|   configure.ac            ) the autoconf input that was used to build
 | |
|                           )   "configure" and config.h
 | |
|   depcomp                 ) script to find program dependencies, generated by
 | |
|                           )   automake
 | |
|   doc/*.3                 man page sources for the PCRE functions
 | |
|   doc/*.1                 man page sources for pcregrep and pcretest
 | |
|   doc/index.html.src      the base HTML page
 | |
|   doc/html/*              HTML documentation
 | |
|   doc/pcre.txt            plain text version of the man pages
 | |
|   doc/pcretest.txt        plain text documentation of test program
 | |
|   doc/perltest.txt        plain text documentation of Perl test program
 | |
|   install-sh              a shell script for installing files
 | |
|   libpcre.pc.in           template for libpcre.pc for pkg-config
 | |
|   libpcrecpp.pc.in        template for libpcrecpp.pc for pkg-config
 | |
|   ltmain.sh               file used to build a libtool script
 | |
|   missing                 ) common stub for a few missing GNU programs while
 | |
|                           )   installing, generated by automake
 | |
|   mkinstalldirs           script for making install directories
 | |
|   perltest.pl             Perl test program
 | |
|   pcre-config.in          source of script which retains PCRE information
 | |
|   pcrecpp_unittest.cc          )
 | |
|   pcre_scanner_unittest.cc     ) test programs for the C++ wrapper
 | |
|   pcre_stringpiece_unittest.cc )
 | |
|   testdata/testinput*     test data for main library tests
 | |
|   testdata/testoutput*    expected test results
 | |
|   testdata/grep*          input and output for pcregrep tests
 | |
| 
 | |
| (D) Auxiliary files for cmake support
 | |
| 
 | |
|   cmake/COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS
 | |
|   cmake/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake
 | |
|   cmake/FindReadline.cmake
 | |
|   CMakeLists.txt
 | |
|   config-cmake.h.in
 | |
| 
 | |
| (E) Auxiliary files for VPASCAL
 | |
| 
 | |
|   makevp.bat
 | |
|   makevp_c.txt
 | |
|   makevp_l.txt
 | |
|   pcregexp.pas
 | |
| 
 | |
| (F) Auxiliary files for building PCRE "by hand"
 | |
| 
 | |
|   pcre.h.generic          ) a version of the public PCRE header file
 | |
|                           )   for use in non-"configure" environments
 | |
|   config.h.generic        ) a version of config.h for use in non-"configure"
 | |
|                           )   environments
 | |
| 
 | |
| (F) Miscellaneous
 | |
| 
 | |
|   RunTest.bat            a script for running tests under Windows
 | |
| 
 | |
| Philip Hazel
 | |
| Email local part: ph10
 | |
| Email domain: cam.ac.uk
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| Last updated: 21 March 2009
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