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+pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] +[--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix] +
++pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE +libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. +
++--prefix +Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture +independent files (/usr on many systems, /usr/local on some +systems) to the standard output. +
++--exec-prefix +Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture +dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) to the standard output. +
++--version +Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard +output. +
++--libs +Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link +with PCRE (-lpcre on many systems). +
++--libs-posix +Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with +the PCRE posix emulation library (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many +systems). +
++--cflags +Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile +files that use PCRE (this may include some -I options, but is blank on +many systems). +
++--cflags-posix +Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile +files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some -I +options, but is blank on many systems). +
++pcre(3) +
++This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux +system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page. +
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+Last updated: 18 April 2007
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