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authorph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>2007-08-01 09:10:40 +0000
committerph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>2007-08-01 09:10:40 +0000
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Correct errors in previous patch; tidy for test release.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ This document contains the following sections:
GENERAL
-I (Philip Hazel) have no knowledge of Windows or VMS sytems and how their
+I (Philip Hazel) have no experience of Windows or VMS sytems and how their
libraries work. The items in the PCRE distribution and Makefile that relate to
anything other than Unix-like systems are untested by me.
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ The following are generic comments about building the PCRE C library "by hand".
pcre_version.c
pcre_xclass.c
+ Make sure that you include -I. in the compiler command (or equivalent for
+ an unusual compiler) so that all included PCRE header files are first
+ sought in the current directory. Otherwise you run the risk of picking up
+ a previously-installed file from somewhere else.
+
(7) Now link all the compiled code into an object library in whichever form
your system keeps such libraries. This is the basic PCRE C library. If
your system has static and shared libraries, you may have to do this once
@@ -151,9 +156,9 @@ The default processor stack size of 1Mb in some Windows environments is too
small for matching patterns that need much recursion. In particular, test 2 may
fail because of this. Normally, running out of stack causes a crash, but there
have been cases where the test program has just died silently. See your linker
-documentation for how to increase stack size if you experience problems. The
-Linux default of 8Mb is a reasonable choice for the stack, though even that can
-be too small for some pattern/subject combinations. There is more about stack
+documentation for how to increase stack size if you experience problems. The
+Linux default of 8Mb is a reasonable choice for the stack, though even that can
+be too small for some pattern/subject combinations. There is more about stack
usage in the "pcrestack" documentation.
@@ -310,5 +315,5 @@ $! Locale could not be set to fr
$!
=========================
-Last Updated: 05 July 2007
+Last Updated: 01 August 2007
****