This directory contains a version of LibPCRE 7.6 that has been stripped
down to less than a third of its original uncompressed size.  So if you
want docs, tests and such, you should go to the PCRE website at
http://www.pcre.org .  Here are the changes for the Nmap version:

o Started this NMAP_MODIFICATIONS file

o Removed these directories:
cmake
doc
testdata

o Removed these files:
pcretest.c
pcregrep.c
pcredemo.c
RunGrepTest
RunTest
RunTest.bat
perltest.pl
Detrail
PrepareRelease
libpcre.pc.in
libpcrecpp.pc.in
pcre_printint.src
CMakeLists.txt
config-cmake.h.in
132html
makevp.bat
makevp_c.txt
makevp_l.txt
pcregexp.pas
ltmain.sh
CleanTxt
ChangeLog
NEWS
HACKING
COPYING [Look at LICENCE]

o Got rid of the C++ wrapper, which included this step:
  rm -f *.cc pcrecpparg.h.in pcrecpp.h pcrecpp_internal.h pcre_scanner.h pcre_stringpiece.h.in

o Copied pcre.h.generic to pcre.h and pcre_chartables.c.dist to, you
  guessed it, pcre_chartables.c (for Windows).  Running ./configure in
  UNIX just overwrites them with other ones. Made the rule that makes
  pcre_chartables.c copy pcre_chartables.c.dist instead of making a
  symbolic link to it. Remove pcre_chartables.c from CLEANFILES.

o Stripped down Makefile.am and configure.ac substantially to remove
  libtool dependency (was having trouble on Mac OS X), remove Windows
  stuff (Nmap uses a custom MS VC project for this), and insure it only
  worries about building libpcre.a (which is now build in the libpcre
  directory rather than in libpcre/.libs ).  Removed quite a bit of
  unneeded things from these files, as well as adding -fno-thread-jumps
  when compiling on Mac OS X on Intel (original patch: Kurt Grutzmacher
  grutz(a)jingojango.net).  [The diff is FAR too large to included here]

o Removed config.sub, config.guess, depcomp, install-sh, and missing.
  These files are found in the parent (i.e., Nmap's) directory.

o Comment out some build configuration lines from pcre_internal.h because Nmap
  builds a static library:

--- pcre-7.6/pcre_internal.h	2008-01-20 13:59:21.000000000 -0600
+++ libpcre/pcre_internal.h	2008-02-15 18:12:28.000000000 -0600
@@ -108,15 +108,19 @@ PCRE_EXP_DATA_DEFN only if they are not 
 
 #ifndef PCRE_EXP_DECL
 #  ifdef _WIN32
+/* COMMENTED OUT AS IT'S COMPILED STATICALLY
 #    ifndef PCRE_STATIC
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern __declspec(dllexport)
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DEFN       __declspec(dllexport)
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DATA_DEFN  __declspec(dllexport)
 #    else
+*/
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DEFN
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DATA_DEFN
+/*
 #    endif
+*/
 #  else
 #    ifdef __cplusplus
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern "C"


...and pcre.h.in/pcre.h.generic/pcre.h:


--- pcre-7.6/pcre.h.in	2008-01-20 14:01:08.000000000 -0600
+++ libpcre/pcre.h.in	2008-02-15 18:12:54.000000000 -0600
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ imported have to be identified as such. 
 export setting is defined in pcre_internal.h, which includes this file. So we
 don't change existing definitions of PCRE_EXP_DECL and PCRECPP_EXP_DECL. */
 
+/*
 #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(PCRE_STATIC)
 #  ifndef PCRE_EXP_DECL
 #    define PCRE_EXP_DECL  extern __declspec(dllimport)
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ don't change existing definitions of PCR
 #    endif
 #  endif
 #endif
+*/
 
 /* By default, we use the standard "extern" declarations. */
 

..and pcreposix.h:


--- pcre-7.6/pcreposix.h	2008-01-20 13:56:29.000000000 -0600
+++ libpcre/pcreposix.h	2008-02-15 18:13:29.000000000 -0600
@@ -110,10 +110,12 @@ imported have to be identified as such. 
 export settings are needed, and are set in pcreposix.c before including this
 file. */
 
+/*
 #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(PCRE_STATIC) && !defined(PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL)
 #  define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DECL  extern __declspec(dllimport)
 #  define PCREPOSIX_EXP_DEFN  __declspec(dllimport)
 #endif
+*/
 
 /* By default, we use the standard "extern" declarations. */
 

o Added pcre_winconfig.h for Windows.  LibPCRE used to include config.h in
  pcre_internal.h, and we'd include this winconfig there instead of config.h
  if WIN32 is defined.  Now, however, they've moved config.h includes to a
  bunch of different files, so we have to change them.  We could remove the
  other includes and move it back to pcre_internal.h, but they must've moved
  them for a reason, so we'll follow them.  Occurrences of

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif

  get changed to

#ifdef WIN32
#include "pcre_winconfig.h"
#else
#include "config.h"
#endif

o Removed this pcre_chartables deletion code from configure.ac:
--- configure.ac	(revision 13598)
+++ configure.ac	(working copy)
@@ -491,10 +491,6 @@
 # Make the generated script files executable.
 AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([script-chmod], [chmod a+x pcre-config])
 
-# Make sure that pcre_chartables.c is removed in case the method for
-# creating it was changed by reconfiguration.
-AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([delete-old-chartables], [rm -f pcre_chartables.c])
-
 AC_OUTPUT
 
 dnl end configure.ac

o Removed Makefile.am since it doesn't even seem to regenerate without a bunch of files which were previously deleted (e.g. NEWS, etc.)

o Removed the code from Makefile.in which regenerates Makefile.am when it's out of date:
--- Makefile.in	(revision 13598)
+++ Makefile.in	(working copy)
@@ -265,21 +265,7 @@
 
 .SUFFIXES:
 .SUFFIXES: .c .o .obj
-am--refresh:
-	@:
-$(srcdir)/Makefile.in:  $(srcdir)/Makefile.am  $(am__configure_deps)
-	@for dep in $?; do \
-	  case '$(am__configure_deps)' in \
-	    *$$dep*) \
-	      echo ' cd $(srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu '; \
-	      cd $(srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu  \
-		&& exit 0; \
-	      exit 1;; \
-	  esac; \
-	done; \
-	echo ' cd $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu  Makefile'; \
-	cd $(top_srcdir) && \
-	  $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu  Makefile
+
 .PRECIOUS: Makefile
 Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
 	@case '$?' in \
@@ -751,7 +737,7 @@
 
 .MAKE: install-am install-strip
 
-.PHONY: CTAGS GTAGS all all-am am--refresh check check-am clean \
+.PHONY: CTAGS GTAGS all all-am check check-am clean \
 	clean-binPROGRAMS clean-generic clean-libLIBRARIES \
 	clean-noinstPROGRAMS ctags dist dist-all dist-bzip2 dist-gzip \
 	dist-shar dist-tarZ dist-zip distcheck distclean \



o Regenerated everything with 'aclocal; autoconf'

o Prevent pcre.h from being regenerated everytime configure is invoked and
  subsequently removed upon a distclean:
Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
--- configure.ac    (revision 25730)
+++ configure.ac    (working copy)
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
 AC_INIT(PCRE, pcre_major.pcre_minor[]pcre_prerelease, , pcre)
-AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([pcre.h.in])
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR()
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-bzip2 dist-zip])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
 
@@ -485,7 +485,6 @@
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(
    Makefile
    pcre-config
-   pcre.h
 )
 
 # Make the generated script files executable.
Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
--- Makefile.in (revision 25730)
+++ Makefile.in (working copy)
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
    $(srcdir)/../depcomp $(srcdir)/../install-sh \
    $(srcdir)/../missing $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \
    $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/config.h.in \
-   $(srcdir)/pcre-config.in $(srcdir)/pcre.h.in \
    $(top_srcdir)/configure AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS
 ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4
 am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@
  configure.lineno config.status.lineno
 mkinstalldirs = $(install_sh) -d
 CONFIG_HEADER = config.h
-CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES = pcre-config pcre.h
+CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES = pcre-config
 am__vpath_adj_setup = srcdirstrip=`echo "$(srcdir)" | sed 's|.|.|g'`;
 am__vpath_adj = case $$p in \
     $(srcdir)/*) f=`echo "$$p" | sed "s|^$$srcdirstrip/||"`;; \
@@ -228,9 +227,6 @@
 CLEANFILES = 
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = pcre.h.generic
 
-# These are the header files we'll install. We do not distribute pcre.h because
-# it is generated from pcre.h.in.
-nodist_include_HEADERS = pcre.h
 include_HEADERS = pcreposix.h
 bin_SCRIPTS = pcre-config
 @WITH_REBUILD_CHARTABLES_TRUE@dftables_SOURCES = dftables.c
@@ -303,8 +299,6 @@
    -rm -f config.h stamp-h1
 pcre-config: $(top_builddir)/config.status $(srcdir)/pcre-config.in
    cd $(top_builddir) && $(SHELL) ./config.status $@
-pcre.h: $(top_builddir)/config.status $(srcdir)/pcre.h.in
-   cd $(top_builddir) && $(SHELL) ./config.status $@
 install-libLIBRARIES: $(lib_LIBRARIES)
    @$(NORMAL_INSTALL)
    test -z "$(libdir)" || $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)"
@@ -760,7 +754,6 @@
 
 pcre.h.generic: configure.ac
    rm -f $@
-   cp -p pcre.h $@
 
 @WITH_REBUILD_CHARTABLES_TRUE@pcre_chartables.c: dftables$(EXEEXT)
 @WITH_REBUILD_CHARTABLES_TRUE@ ./dftables$(EXEEXT) $@