ports and compile options

[Lowell Gilbert]

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/