ports and compile options
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Oct 12 05:50:02 PDT 2005
Peter Matulis <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> writes:
> --- Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That worked. I installed the utf8 version and all is well.
Good.
> I do not understand how I had
> syntax highlighting with the standard version prior to upgrading though.
Maybe bluefish used a different method for syntax highlighting.
> A side question is
> whether I should remove the standard version since I now have both installed.
If you're not using it for anything, sure.
Be well.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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