News for monotone 0.39 says: - The internal copy of PCRE has been updated to version 7.6. If you use the '--with-system-pcre' configure switch, it will insist on at least this version. I therefore think Gentoo should use that switch and RDEPEND on >=dev-libs/libpcre-7.6. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
well spotted.
fixed as suggested. Thanks for the keen eye and reporting this bug.