pcre - Library for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions HOWTO

ChangeLog


2022-03-21	- Changed download URL from ftp.pcre.org to
		  Sourceforge
		- Updated note about PCRE 8.45 being the final release
		  (but PCRE2 continues)
		- Added version bunded with Slackware 15.0
		- Fixed up the move to /lib64 part
2021-08-03	- 8.42 -> 8.45
		- Web site URL http to https
		- Added Subversion repository link
		- Changed download URL to use https://ftp.pcre.org/
		- Added libedit prerequisite link
2018-10-22	- 8.40 -> 8.42
2017-05-25	- 8.30 -> 8.40
		- Updated Slackware note for 14.0, .1, and .2, removed older
		  than 13.37
		- Removed md5sum check, added sha256sum check
		- $USER -> $(logname) for chown
		- Instead of removing a hard-set list of section 3 man pages
		  that may change, remove installed files that match up the
		  .3 files in ./doc/
		- Instead of a hard-set list of files to remove before
		  'make install', actually get the list out of the pcre
		  package list
2012-03-04	- 8.12 -> 8.30
2011-07-10	- 7.8 -> 8.12
		- Updated Slackware note for 13.0, 13.1 & 13.37,
		  removed 11.0 and 12.0
		- Added prerequisite link for readline
		- Added --enable-pcretest-libreadline configure flag
2009-02-11	- 7.6 -> 7.8
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.1 and 12.2
2008-04-08	- 7.3 -> 7.6
2007-08-28	- 7.0 -> 7.3
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.0
2007-03-14	- 6.6 -> 7.0
		- Removed sed and grep links (at the top now)
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0
Feb 10, 2006	- 6.4 -> 6.6
Sep 22, 2005	- 6.1 -> 6.4
		- chown -R $USER to the source after 'make install' so
		  your non-root user will have access to remove the source
		  directory later
Jun 24, 2005	- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- Moved source directory (see note (a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- 5.0 -> 6.1
		- Added pkg-config prerquisite link
Oct 14, 2004	- 4.5 -> 5.0
		- Updated Slack note for 10.0
		- Added the configure flag --enable-utf8
Mar 26, 2004	- 4.4 -> 4.5
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
		- Updated notes removing old version's shared library files
Oct 21, 2003	- First entry

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