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| author | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2007-03-20 11:46:50 +0000 |
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| committer | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2007-03-20 11:46:50 +0000 |
| commit | a281832efa782b67b26a04360a139de899e4ad62 (patch) | |
| tree | f90d32626002496da7c4c746673ab9eb6e54a971 /NEWS | |
| parent | fa9f06f54d0a56cf3af0fb7fa42187a7f3f16d5f (diff) | |
| download | pcre-a281832efa782b67b26a04360a139de899e4ad62.tar.gz | |
Make the use of dftables optional, and not the default. Further tidies to
documentation.
git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@128 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ News about PCRE releases ------------------------ -Release 7.1 12-Mar-07 +Release 7.1 20-Mar-07 --------------------- There are no new features in this release. A few bugs are fixed (see ChangeLog @@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ for details), but the major change is a complete re-implementation of the build system. This now has full Autotools support and so is now "standard" in some sense. It should help with compiling PCRE in a wide variety of environments. +An important change is that the dftables auxiliary program is no longer +compiled and run at "make" time by default. Instead, a default set of character +tables (assuming ASCII coding) is used. If you want to use dftables to generate +the character tables as previously, add --enable-rebuild-chartables to the +"configure" command. You must do this if you are compiling PCRE to run on a +system that uses EBCDIC code. + +There is a discussion about character tables in the README file. The default is +not to use dftables so that that there is no problem when cross-compiling. + Release 7.0 19-Dec-06 --------------------- |