Bug#482487: jed-extra: pcre.sl does not exist

[Jörg Sommer]

reassign 482487 jed-common
retitle 482487 jed-common: Respect /u/s/slsh even if /u/s/slsh/local is missing
thanks

G. Milde schrieb am Fri 23. May, 09:51 (+0200):
> On 22.05.08, Alan B. Clements wrote:
> 
> > After googling the problem it appears that the maintainers declared it no
> > longer required and moved it to "jedpcre.sl".
> 
> Actually,
> 
> pcre.sl    is part of the package slsh and is installed
>            under /usr/share/slsh/pcre.sl (but not preparsed to pcre.slc).
> 
> jedpcre.sl provides Perl compatible regexp search and for this requires the
>            pcre.sl file. 
> 	   
> 	   linking prce.sl -> extra/jedpcre.sl fails, as this leads to a
> 	   file requiring itself.
> 	   
> 
> The core of the problem is that slsh 2.1.3-3 triggers a weaknes of Jed's
> site.sl initialisation file leading to /usr/share/slsh/ missing in the
> jed library path (Bug #476216)

Thank you Günter for your analysis of the situation.

Bye, Jörg.
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