Git and PCRE2 vs PCRE?

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2017, 20:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kOeuVjvoeg0WsSfDeakJh_es2xhYK_O_bM87DEBVcB1w@mail.gmail.com>

Some more 2.12.2 testing on Solaris 11.3 x86_64:

    ...
    CC ident.o
    CC kwset.o
    CC line-log.o
    CC levenshtein.o
    CC line-range.o
    CC list-objects.o
In file included from revision.h:5:0,
                 from line-log.c:10:
grep.h:5:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
 #include <pcre.h>
                  ^
compilation terminated.
gmake: *** [line-log.o] Error 1

Configure has an option for libpcre, but its not clear to me how to fine tune it for libpcre2:

$ ./configure --help | /usr/gnu/bin/grep -A 2 -i pcre
  --with-libpcre          support Perl-compatible regexes (default is NO)
                          ARG can be also prefix for libpcre library and
                          headers

Is it possible to use PCRE2 with Git? If so, how do I tell Git to use PCRE2?

Thanks in advance.

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$ ls /usr/local/include/pcre* /usr/local/include/pcre2.h /usr/local/include/pcre2posix.h

$ ls /usr/local/lib64/libpcre* /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so.1 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so.1.0.1