I contacted Daniel with a pm, hope to respond soon.
Thanks again gutmensch
Submitted. I updated pcre to 8.12 and added "--enable-unicode-properties" (implies --enabled-utf8) to the configure parameters:
pcre-8.12 configuration summary:
Install prefix .................. : /usr/local
C preprocessor .................. : gcc -E
C compiler ...................... : gcc
C++ preprocessor ................ : g++ -E
C++ compiler .................... : g++
Linker .......................... : /usr/local/bin/ld
C preprocessor flags ............ :
C compiler flags ................ : -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Os -pipe
C++ compiler flags .............. : -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Os -pipe
Linker flags .................... :
Extra libraries ................. : -lncurses
Build C++ library ............... : yes
Enable UTF-8 support ............ : yes
Unicode properties .............. : yes
Newline char/sequence ........... : lf
\R matches only ANYCRLF ......... : no
EBCDIC coding ................... : no
Rebuild char tables ............. : no
Use stack recursion ............. : yes
POSIX mem threshold ............. : 10
Internal link size .............. : 2
Match limit ..................... : 10000000
Match limit recursion ........... : MATCH_LIMIT
Build shared libs ............... : yes
Build static libs ............... : yes
Link pcregrep with libz ......... : yes
Link pcregrep with libbz2 ....... : yes
Link pcretest with libreadline .. : yes