ports and compile options

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Oct 11 13:35:17 PDT 2005


Peter Matulis <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> writes:

> I recently upgraded my ports and now my editor (bluefish) has lost its syntax highlighting. 
> Errors from within the editor mention pcre not being compiled with UTF8 support.  How do I
> specify such compile options when installing by port?  I am using 5.4 stable.

devel/pcre-utf8 instead of devel/pcre might do it.

A useful incantation might be something like 
 # portupgrade -f -o devel/pcre-utf8 devel/pcre




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