devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 21. February 2005 16:58, Simon Barner wrote:
> Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > > A proper solution for this would be a slave port devel/pcre-utf8 that
> > > enforces the use of the WITH_UTF8 option. (See e.g. devel/boost and
> > > devel/boost-python for an example).
> >
> > OTOH we can't afford to create slave ports for almost every
> > configure option.
>
> Yes, you're right, since there are exponentially many combinations of
> options, creating slave ports is not the right way.
> We probably need a mechanism [...]

Don't overengineer. Slave ports pretty much *are* the right way to deal with 
this sort of situation - which is that *some* option is too controverse to be 
either default off or default on. This does not at all imply that you need to 
translate *every* option there is (or could be imagined) into a slave port.

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