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Tristan Matthews04616462013-11-14 16:09:34 -05001PCRE-CONFIG(1) PCRE-CONFIG(1)
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5NAME
6 pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration
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8SYNOPSIS
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10 pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]
11 [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]
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14DESCRIPTION
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16 pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries
17 and the options required to compile a program to use them.
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20OPTIONS
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22 --prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for
23 architecture independent files (/usr on many systems,
24 /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output.
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26 --exec-prefix
27 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for
28 architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix)
29 to the standard output.
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31 --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to
32 the standard output.
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34 --libs Writes to the standard output the command line options
35 required to link with PCRE (-lpcre on many systems).
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37 --libs-posix
38 Writes to the standard output the command line options
39 required to link with the PCRE posix emulation library
40 (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems).
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42 --cflags Writes to the standard output the command line options
43 required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include
44 some -I options, but is blank on many systems).
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46 --cflags-posix
47 Writes to the standard output the command line options
48 required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emulation
49 library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on
50 many systems).
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53SEE ALSO
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55 pcre(3)
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58AUTHOR
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60 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian
61 GNU/Linux system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man
62 page.
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65REVISION
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67 Last updated: 18 April 2007