Re: Unable to build zsh with pcre on Mac Homebrew

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 14:52 +0100, Jesper Nygårds wrote:
> I have done a "brew edit zsh", and then added the line ' "--enable-pcre", '
> to the configure options. Then I ran "brew install --build-from-source
> --verbose zsh".  I can see from the output that configure is run with
> "--enable-pcre", but later in the log I see this:
> 
> checking for pcre_compile... no
> 
> checking for pcre_study... no
> 
> checking for pcre_exec... no
>
> So I assume something is preventing the build from finding the pcre
> libraries, although the configure script has been run with such support.

You'll need to look in confg.log to see what it's actually compiling.
That should show the -I and -L options being applied to the tests (if
I've interpreted what goes to config.log correctly).

pws