Upgrade to pcre2-10.37 (2021-05-26).
Test: treehugger
Change-Id: Ie8efa917b9531df2cc0e13b3792a5ed8223f5421
diff --git a/dist2/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD b/dist2/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
index a73c058..6bf6576 100644
--- a/dist2/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
+++ b/dist2/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@
The following are generic instructions for building the PCRE2 C library "by
hand". If you are going to use CMake, this section does not apply to you; you
-can skip ahead to the CMake section.
+can skip ahead to the CMake section. Note that the settings concerned with
+8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit code units relate to the type of data string that
+PCRE2 processes. They are NOT referring to the underlying operating system bit
+width. You do not have to do anything special to compile in a 64-bit
+environment, for example.
(1) Copy or rename the file src/config.h.generic as src/config.h, and edit the
macro settings that it contains to whatever is appropriate for your
@@ -86,11 +90,11 @@
The tables in src/pcre2_chartables.c are defaults. The caller of PCRE2 can
specify alternative tables at run time.
- (4) For an 8-bit library, compile the following source files from the src
- directory, setting -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=8 as a compiler option. Also
- set -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if you have set up src/config.h with your
- configuration, or else use other -D settings to change the configuration
- as required.
+ (4) For a library that supports 8-bit code units in the character strings that
+ it processes, compile the following source files from the src directory,
+ setting -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=8 as a compiler option. Also set
+ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if you have set up src/config.h with your configuration,
+ or else use other -D settings to change the configuration as required.
pcre2_auto_possess.c
pcre2_chartables.c
@@ -142,9 +146,9 @@
If your system has static and shared libraries, you may have to do this
once for each type.
- (6) If you want to build a 16-bit library or 32-bit library (as well as, or
- instead of the 8-bit library) just supply 16 or 32 as the value of
- -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH when you are compiling.
+ (6) If you want to build a library that supports 16-bit or 32-bit code units,
+ (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit library) just supply 16 or 32 as the
+ value of -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH when you are compiling.
(7) If you want to build the POSIX wrapper functions (which apply only to the
8-bit library), ensure that you have the src/pcre2posix.h file and then
@@ -401,6 +405,6 @@
z/OS file formats. The port provides an API for LE languages such as COBOL and
for the z/OS and z/VM versions of the Rexx languages.
-==============================
-Last Updated: 14 November 2018
-==============================
+===========================
+Last Updated: 28 April 2021
+===========================