[Pkg-emboss-devel] Bug#433316: Bug#433316: emboss-lib: ajax.h #includes files which are not available

[Johannes Kloos]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:18:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:33:05AM +0200, Johannes Kloos a écrit :
> > 
> > Hi,
> > the header file ajreg.h in emboss-lib includes pcre_internal.h.
> > Since the package itself doesn't provide this header file and neither
> > does libpcre3-dev, the following program won't compile:
> 
> Dear Johannes,
> 
> I can add pcre_internal.h to the emboss-lib package. Since EMBOSS uses a
> version of libpcre which is older than the one in Debian, I would like
> to avoid confusion. Can you suggest a relevant location for the file? I
> am not very comfortable with library handling.
Maybe you could change the #include into #include "ajax-pcre_internal.h"
and distribute the header file under a different name.
Another possibility: you could try to build emboss against the pcre
package included in debian, but this would need a few patches.

> PS : I am preparing packages for version 5.0.0, released yesterday.
This is interesting to know.

> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> http://charles.plessy.org
> Wako, Saitama, Japan