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| author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2010-09-30 16:52:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2010-09-30 16:52:23 +0000 |
| commit | 877334b5c9c375ef2ac8e637851daa140a7a523c (patch) | |
| tree | db67b2a358ba732d0aee6bc5173be6fd07f41540 /docbook | |
| parent | 46749e843c88de2a2f5746a8565bb3fae789623d (diff) | |
Note that you probably don't need the PCRE library.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=34287
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| -rw-r--r-- | docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_libraries.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_libraries.xml b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_libraries.xml index 7761ea4d90..c7e2e87d94 100644 --- a/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_libraries.xml +++ b/docbook/wsdg_src/WSDG_chapter_libraries.xml @@ -308,7 +308,13 @@ utilities." <section id="ChLibsPCRE"> <title>PCRE (optional)</title> <para> - "Perl compatible regular expressions" + "Perl compatible regular expressions". PCRE provides the pattern matching + functionality required for the "matches" display filter operator. + </para> + <para> + You probably don't need this. GRegex, part of GLib 2.14 and later is a + wrapper around PCRE. Wireshark's configure script will use it instead of + PCRE if it is present. </para> <section id="ChLibsUnixPCRE"> |