[PATCH] pcre: disable C++ bindings

[Karl Palsson]

Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 7:40 AM Jan Kardell
> <jan.kardell at telliq.com> wrote:
> >
> > Rosen Penev skrev:
> > > Nothing uses them. Allows to simplify the Makefile.
> > Actually I use it for stuff that is not in openwrt repos. That means I
> > must keep pcrecpp out-of-tree. Maybe others do too, but have not yet
> > discovered this change. Is really a few saved lines in a makefile worth
> > to make life more difficult for people who uses openwrt as a base for
> > there own projects? Or is openwrt not meant to be used that way?
> >
> > So I kindly request that this change is reverted.
> News to me. From the small research I did on Arch and Debian,
> all packages use the C API.

I would presume they were refering to their own packages not in
the openwrt repos, not "random package frrom arch/debian"

Given how much support _is_ given to downstream openwrt builds,
it doesn't seem unreasonable that for a general package like this
we should offer all of it?

Sincerely,
Karl Palsson
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