| .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 |
| .SH NAME |
| pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| .B pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] |
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| .B [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix] |
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| .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| \fBpcre-config\fP returns the configuration of the installed PCRE |
| libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. |
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| .SH OPTIONS |
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| \fB--prefix\fP |
| Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture |
| independent files (\fI/usr\fP on many systems, \fI/usr/local\fP on some |
| systems) to the standard output. |
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| \fB--exec-prefix\fP |
| Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture |
| dependent files (normally the same as \fB--prefix\fP) to the standard output. |
| .TP 10 |
| \fB--version\fP |
| Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard |
| output. |
| .TP 10 |
| \fB--libs\fP |
| Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link |
| with PCRE (\fB-lpcre\fP on many systems). |
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| \fB--libs-posix\fP |
| Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with |
| the PCRE posix emulation library (\fB-lpcreposix\fP \fB-lpcre\fP on many |
| systems). |
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| \fB--cflags\fP |
| Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile |
| files that use PCRE (this may include some \fB-I\fP options, but is blank on |
| many systems). |
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| \fB--cflags-posix\fP |
| Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile |
| files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some \fB-I\fP |
| options, but is blank on many systems). |
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| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| \fBpcre(3)\fP |
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| .SH AUTHOR |
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| This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux |
| system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page. |
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| .SH REVISION |
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| Last updated: 18 April 2007 |
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