On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:

Only you can answer that. Read the config.log file and see what error message was in it for the regfree test.

As far as I can investigate the situation configure script tries to build following source to find regex library:

| /* Override any GCC internal prototype to avoid an error. | Use char because int might match the return type of a GCC | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | #ifdef __cplusplus | extern "C" | #endif | char regfree (); | int | main () | { | return regfree (); | ; | return 0; | }

There is 3 attempts to build it with or without various libraries:

1) cc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 conftest.c -lws2_32 >&5 C:\temp\temp\ccKv1vKc.o: In function `main': d:\MyProgram\kokoko\openldap-2.4.33/conftest.c:69: undefined reference to `regfree'

2) cc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 conftest.c -lregex -lws2_32 >&5 D:\Dev\mingw\bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lregex

3) cc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 conftest.c -lgnuregex -lws2_32 >&5 D:\Dev\mingw\bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lgnuregex

But PCRE posix wrappers lives in libpcreposix.a. Is there any way to use pcre libraries (libpcreposix.a + libpcre.a) for openldap build? Should such behavior of configuration script be consifdered as bug?