Missing libpcre during installation ./config EG 2.10.1

[Václav Jansa]

There is one missing library during ./config process of Evergreen 2.10.1

Environment:
Freshly installed Debian-Jessie 8, installed from netinstall image, only standard system tools and ssh server enabled.
Installed and tested OpenSRF 2.4.1

During config process is not found libpcre

Install command:

PATH=/openils/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf

Error:
...
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for pcre... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libpcre >= 3.0.0) were not met:

No package 'libpcre' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables pcre_CFLAGS
and pcre_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Workaround:
manual install of libpcre
apt-get install libpcre3-dev

Expected FIX:

add libpcre3-dev to Makefile.install job.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

I saw something similar when I was working on bug 1551084 for Ubuntu 16.04 with package libpcre3-dev needing to be added. Must be something changed in the packaging for newer distributions.

[Ben Shum (bshum)]

Adding initial review targets all the way back to release 2.8 series since Jessie's been around since before then even.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

In Wheezy, libpcre3 and libpcre3-dev came by virtual of being dependencies of libaprutil1-dev, which in turn is a dependency of apache2-prefork-dev. As of Jessie, libaprutil1-dev no longer requires PCRE.

I note that Evergreen's direct dependency on PCRE is new as of 2.10 (see bug 1468422), so I will remove the 2.8 and 2.9 review targets.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

I've started a collab branch in the working repository that currently contains a patch updating Jessie's install dependencies: collab/gmcharlt/lp1563531_add_libpcre_dep

Fedora users may need the pcre and pcre-devel packages; I'll leave it to somebody else to check.

[Mike Rylander (mrylander)]

Picked into master and 2.10 for modern happiness.