devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8

Thierry Thomas thierry at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 21 09:49:42 PST 2005


Le Lun 21 fév 05 à 17:30:36 +0100, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm01 at gmail.com>
 écrivait :
> > For the port I'm talking about, I can think of a way to test if pcre
> > has UTF8 support, but not on how to force reinstall.
> 
> This seems like a good solution on its own. Just do the test you 
> described, if it fails print a message that says pcre needs to be built 
> with WITH_UTF8=yes or however that port sets its options. No need
> to modify the ports system.

It's OK to check if the required option has been enabled, but this is
not sufficient: with this solution it would be impossible to package
the port and you have to define IS_INTERACTIVE. A slave port would be
fine.
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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