Hi
This library was in tumbleweed a few months ago, but was removed in an update presumably because it’s ancient. (If the Debian page on a library is urging you to use something newer that’s a pretty strong indication lol). The issue is nginx with the rtmp module relies on this library. I worked around it before by booting up to an old snapshot, and copying and pasting the old library to where it used to be. Unfortunately I had a drive failure in the meantime and had to restore from a backup and… evidently I forgot to back up the old pcre library. My google skills are failing me when it comes to finding it anywhere in a form I can use with tumbleweed. Just wondering if anyone is able to help really >_<
Yeah, I’m not questioning the decision to migrate over. The library is incredibly old and preferably the nginx software would just use the newer library and the old should probably not be in tumbleweed by default anymore. Would it be possible to at least have a download link or the old library available somewhere for the dozen of us who still rely on software that includes it as a dependency?
copying Show Base:System / pcre - openSUSE Build Service into your home: repo and building it there is probably your best bet
Thank you for the help. Got it all working now.
lol tried adding packages from that repo; nginx couldn’t see it. Tried going to github and compiling it from source; couldn’t get it to compile. Then realised it’s only for the http rewrite module that I am not using anyway so just compiled it without it and it’s working now xD