[PATCH] Configure: added new option --with-pcre-conf-opt=OPTIONS.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 07:01:38AM -0800, rand at sent.com wrote:

> > As you already have libpcre installed, you don't need nginx to 
> > build it (and you don't need sources).  If nginx isn't able to 
> > find the pcre itself, use something like this to tell where to 
> > look for headers and library:
> > 
> >      ./configure --with-cc-opt="-I/usr/local/include" \
> >                  --with-ld-opt="-L/usr/local/lib64"
> 
> That's easy enough, then.
> 
> I've built pcre, separately, with pcre-jit support enabled.  Is that
> sufficient for nginx to use pcre-jit?  I suspect that it is, and that
> "--with-pcrejit" is also simply a build-pcre-in-nginx flag?

The "--with-pcre-jit" configure option is documented to mean:

$ ./configure --help | grep jit
  --with-pcre-jit                    build PCRE with JIT compilation support

That is, it's only applies when nginx is going to build PCRE 
library itself.

To actually activate JIT compilation, you'll also need to use 
pcre_jit directive, see nginx.org/r/pcre_jit.

Note that use of PCRE JIT may actually result in lower performance 
(due to more memory used to compiled regular expressions, and less 
effective CPU cache as a result), enabling it unconditionally may 
not be a good idea.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/