[opensuse-support] tvheadend compilation and regex engine
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The version of tvheadend supplied with openSUSE uses only the extended POSIX regex engine, rather than the PCRE or PCRE2 engines that provide greater expressive power when setting up programme searches (autorecs) in the GUI. If PCRE or PCRE2 are present in the compilation environment then tvheadend's configuration system will cause them to be used.[1] Is this choice to cripple the regex engine a deliberate (and IMHO misguided) attempt to minimise dependencies, or is it due to ignorance of the need to provide the desired regex engine in the compilation environment, or something else? In any event I'd like to see it updated to include the PCRE engine or better the PCRE2 engine, as done by Debian and other distros. [1] https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/tree/master/data/conf/epggrab/eit/scr... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
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Hello Dave, Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020, 00:07:58 CEST schrieb Dave Howorth: ....
In any event I'd like to see it updated to include the PCRE engine or better the PCRE2 engine, as done by Debian and other distros.
I dont know how familiar you are with OBS.... Did you try to branch it and include PCRE2 in the build dependencies? (I did not look into the package, but thats probably the first thing to try. It may need additional compilation parameters as well) HTH Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:20:51 +0200
Axel Braun
Hello Dave,
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020, 00:07:58 CEST schrieb Dave Howorth:
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In any event I'd like to see it updated to include the PCRE engine or better the PCRE2 engine, as done by Debian and other distros.
I dont know how familiar you are with OBS....
Not at all.
Did you try to branch it and include PCRE2 in the build dependencies? (I did not look into the package, but thats probably the first thing to try. It may need additional compilation parameters as well)
I have the distro version installed and that's the way I'd like to keep it. I'd simply like the distro to build it the same way Debian does, and not with functionality inhibited/removed. Or failing that, an explanation of the reasons.
HTH Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
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Hello Dave, Am Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2020, 16:05:12 CEST schrieb Dave Howorth:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:20:51 +0200
Axel Braun
wrote: Hello Dave,
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020, 00:07:58 CEST schrieb Dave Howorth:
....
In any event I'd like to see it updated to include the PCRE engine or better the PCRE2 engine, as done by Debian and other distros.
I dont know how familiar you are with OBS....
Not at all.
Did you try to branch it and include PCRE2 in the build dependencies? (I did not look into the package, but thats probably the first thing to try. It may need additional compilation parameters as well)
I have the distro version installed and that's the way I'd like to keep it. I'd simply like the distro to build it the same way Debian does, and not with functionality inhibited/removed.
Or failing that, an explanation of the reasons.
This is probably best answered by the package maintainers (whom I put in bcc, as I dont know if they read this list) Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
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