Re: pcrelib modified ?

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Andrey Zmievski wrote: > Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just tried to build the pcre module using the shared library and > > devel files installed on my debian system, and found that the pcrelib in > > the php3 sources was changed and pcre.c needs these changes so it cannot > > be compiled using the standard shared library. Am I correct ? > > Yes, you're correct. It was necessary to introduce small changes in order to > get it working in such a way so that it's compatible with Perl. I started a > dialog about this with PCRE author and he modified PCRE in version 2.06 to do > what we needed it to do. However, I have not made PHP work with PCRE 2.06 > yet. This is for the future. Thanks, then I'll wait a bit before adding the pcre module to the debian packages. Btw this is an api change, so it'll involve a function name change in the pcre library, right ? Because if it doesnt change the function name, programs compiled against older libpcre will break... Greg