Re: [PATCH v4] meson: woraround broken system PCRE2 dependency in macOS

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>

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Jul 15, 2025, 16:50 UTC

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> meson: woraround broken system PCRE2 dependency in macOS

s/woraround/work around/

> macOS provides a PCRE2 library in base that is not usable and not
> configured properly, as it installs a pkgconf module that
> points to a non existent pcre2.h header in /usr/local/include.

s/non existent/non-existent/

> Detect that case and allow a fallback to a wrapped submodule
> if the feature is enabled and that is possible, or print a
> warning and disable the feature if the feature was set to "auto".
> which is the new default.
>
> Suggested-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>