Bug 333355

Summary:	=dev-libs/libpcre-8.10 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arseny Solokha <asolokha>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jason.r.wallace, sping
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://pcre.org/changelog.txt
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835796
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Arseny Solokha 2010-08-18 20:16:25 UTC

PCRE 8.10 released on June 25, 2010.  Follow URL for complete changelog (which consists of 21 items).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jason Wallace 2010-11-12 17:25:59 UTC

For this next version I would like to suggest removing "--with-match-limit-recursion=8192" from econf or maybe adding a USE flag to disable this. 

A lot of security software uses libpcre for evaluating network packet data (ex. snort). Having access to the default recursion limit is important for these applications. I have been seeing some oddness with my snort sensors and pattern matching and I think it is related to this hard codded limit in the ebuild.

Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2010-11-22 18:57:57 UTC

Please test the 8.10 ebuild just added to overlay "betagarden".

(In reply to comment #1)
> For this next version I would like to suggest removing
> "--with-match-limit-recursion=8192" from econf or maybe adding a USE flag to
> disable this. 

I have added a use flag "recursion-limit" to the ebuild of 8.10.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-12-12 09:32:27 UTC

Thanks this is fixed in main tree now.