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They are all selected, or deselected, by providing -options to the <b>configure</b> script which is run before the <b>make</b> -command. The complete list of options for <b>configure</b> (which includes the -standard ones such as the selection of the installation directory) can be -obtained by running -</P> -<P> -<pre> - ./configure --help -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -The following sections describe certain options whose names begin with --enable -or --disable. These settings specify changes to the defaults for the -<b>configure</b> command. Because of the way that <b>configure</b> works, ---enable and --disable always come in pairs, so the complementary option always -exists as well, but as it specifies the default, it is not described. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">UTF-8 SUPPORT</a><br> -<P> -To build PCRE with support for UTF-8 character strings, add -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --enable-utf8 -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. Of itself, this does not make PCRE treat -strings as UTF-8. As well as compiling PCRE with this option, you also have -have to set the PCRE_UTF8 option when you call the <b>pcre_compile()</b> -function. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">CODE VALUE OF NEWLINE</a><br> -<P> -By default, PCRE treats character 10 (linefeed) as the newline character. This -is the normal newline character on Unix-like systems. You can compile PCRE to -use character 13 (carriage return) instead by adding -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --enable-newline-is-cr -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. For completeness there is also a ---enable-newline-is-lf option, which explicitly specifies linefeed as the -newline character. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">BUILDING SHARED AND STATIC LIBRARIES</a><br> -<P> -The PCRE building process uses <b>libtool</b> to build both shared and static -Unix libraries by default. You can suppress one of these by adding one of -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --disable-shared - --disable-static -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command, as required. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">POSIX MALLOC USAGE</a><br> -<P> -When PCRE is called through the POSIX interface (see the <b>pcreposix</b> -documentation), additional working storage is required for holding the pointers -to capturing substrings because PCRE requires three integers per substring, -whereas the POSIX interface provides only two. If the number of expected -substrings is small, the wrapper function uses space on the stack, because this -is faster than using <b>malloc()</b> for each call. The default threshold above -which the stack is no longer used is 10; it can be changed by adding a setting -such as -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --with-posix-malloc-threshold=20 -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">LIMITING PCRE RESOURCE USAGE</a><br> -<P> -Internally, PCRE has a function called <b>match()</b> which it calls repeatedly -(possibly recursively) when performing a matching operation. By limiting the -number of times this function may be called, a limit can be placed on the -resources used by a single call to <b>pcre_exec()</b>. The limit can be changed -at run time, as described in the <b>pcreapi</b> documentation. The default is 10 -million, but this can be changed by adding a setting such as -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --with-match-limit=500000 -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">HANDLING VERY LARGE PATTERNS</a><br> -<P> -Within a compiled pattern, offset values are used to point from one part to -another (for example, from an opening parenthesis to an alternation -metacharacter). By default two-byte values are used for these offsets, leading -to a maximum size for a compiled pattern of around 64K. This is sufficient to -handle all but the most gigantic patterns. Nevertheless, some people do want to -process enormous patterns, so it is possible to compile PCRE to use three-byte -or four-byte offsets by adding a setting such as -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --with-link-size=3 -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. The value given must be 2, 3, or 4. Using -longer offsets slows down the operation of PCRE because it has to load -additional bytes when handling them. -</P> -<P> -If you build PCRE with an increased link size, test 2 (and test 5 if you are -using UTF-8) will fail. Part of the output of these tests is a representation -of the compiled pattern, and this changes with the link size. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">AVOIDING EXCESSIVE STACK USAGE</a><br> -<P> -PCRE implements backtracking while matching by making recursive calls to an -internal function called <b>match()</b>. In environments where the size of the -stack is limited, this can severely limit PCRE's operation. (The Unix -environment does not usually suffer from this problem.) An alternative approach -that uses memory from the heap to remember data, instead of using recursive -function calls, has been implemented to work round this problem. If you want to -build a version of PCRE that works this way, add -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --disable-stack-for-recursion -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. With this configuration, PCRE will use the -<b>pcre_stack_malloc</b> and <b>pcre_stack_free</b> variables to call memory -management functions. Separate functions are provided because the usage is very -predictable: the block sizes requested are always the same, and the blocks are -always freed in reverse order. A calling program might be able to implement -optimized functions that perform better than the standard <b>malloc()</b> and -<b>free()</b> functions. PCRE runs noticeably more slowly when built in this -way. -</P> -<br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">USING EBCDIC CODE</a><br> -<P> -PCRE assumes by default that it will run in an environment where the character -code is ASCII (or UTF-8, which is a superset of ASCII). PCRE can, however, be -compiled to run in an EBCDIC environment by adding -</P> -<P> -<pre> - --enable-ebcdic -</PRE> -</P> -<P> -to the <b>configure</b> command. -</P> -<P> -Last updated: 09 December 2003 -<br> -Copyright © 1997-2003 University of Cambridge. |