devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8

[Simon Barner]

Hi,

Marwan Burelle wrote:
> I have two question: is there a way to force some options for a port
> depency (that is, if devel/pcre is installed, checked if the option
> was used, and force reinstall if not ... ) ?

A proper solution for this would be a slave port devel/pcre-utf8 that
enforces the use of the WITH_UTF8 option. (See e.g. devel/boost and
devel/boost-python for an example).

> And, does-it make a
> problem to build devel/pcre with WITH_UTF8 set by default (it is set
> on my system and I actualy encouter no error, but it doesn't proove
> anything.)

I cannot comment on this. You'll have to ask the pcre maintainer (eik@).

Simon
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