X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/1ca9f5074196f7fa459367956bcf6d4239b47634..6a6084f8fd44dc65dce40536198ec5d282deb126:/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 2202e6b75..5104e50f6 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -1647,6 +1647,7 @@ architecture and operating system for itself, but the defaults can be overridden if necessary. +.new .section "PCRE library" "SECTpcre" .cindex "PCRE library" Exim no longer has an embedded PCRE library as the vast majority of @@ -1654,10 +1655,14 @@ modern systems include PCRE as a system library, although you may need to install the PCRE or PCRE development package for your operating system. If your system has a normal PCRE installation the Exim build process will need no further configuration. If the library or the -headers are in an unusual location you will need to set the PCRE_LIBS -and INCLUDE directives appropriately. If your operating system has no +headers are in an unusual location you will need to either set the PCRE_LIBS +and INCLUDE directives appropriately, +or set PCRE_CONFIG=yes to use the installed &(pcre-config)& command. +If your operating system has no PCRE support then you will need to obtain and build the current PCRE from &url(ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/). +More information on PCRE is available at &url(http://www.pcre.org/). +.wen .section "DBM libraries" "SECTdb" .cindex "DBM libraries" "discussion of"