Re: PATCH: zsh/pcre module building

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 22,  5:24pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh/pcre module building
}
} > So if I comprehend what's going on here correctly, this links the zsh/pcre
} > module against libpcre, but doesn't link the zsh binary against it?
} 
} I have been thinking about it before, just some comments
} 
} - I hoped to create implementation that would share configure cache and
} make is possible to list help from every module's configure script using
} top-level configure --help and pass parameters to every module's
} configure script using top-level configure.

That sounds nice, too.

} - linking shared object with dynamic library is not portable. May be it
} works on every modern system nowadays, I do not know. 

I believe Clint suggested that we do a configure-time test for whether
this works, and if not then include the shared object's dependencies in
the top-level link.  But his patch doesn't do that, yet, I think.

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