Re: external PCRE configure option for apache2 andmod sec 2?

On 11/29/06, Dan Rossi <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes im aware of that for 2.0, im running 2.0.59 on a dev machine and 2.0.55
> on a production machine, maybe this needs some explaining, im not sure why
> its suggested then to use an external one ?

>From the manual (and your quote):

"Do note that if your Apache is using an external PCRE library you can
compile ModSecurity with WITH_PCRE_STUDY defined, which would possibly
give you a slight performance edge in regular expression processing."


>  Ive confirmed that freebsd ports and debian packages do not use any kind of
> --with-pcre flag, and from what i saw its not even available for the
> configure ?

As far as I know there isn't an option to configure Apache 2.0.x with
an external PCRE library. It's an 2.2.x feature. (But it does exist in
the Debian 2.0.x for as they have back-ported the feature from 2.2.x.)

-- 
Ivan Ristic

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