[PATCH] pcre: disable C++ bindings

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Tue Mar 16 03:33:37 GMT 2021


On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 2:40 PM Karl Palsson <karlp at tweak.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
GMail put this in spam for some reason.

I have no problem with reverting the commit. The uClibc++ stuff should
be removed though.
>
> Sincerely,
> Karl Palsson



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