Latest stable (9.0.3) installed via homebrew doesn't include library(pcre)

General
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The homebrew recipe even lists explicit pcre dependency, but the package isn’t available. Does anyone have an idea why this might be the case?

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What does it explicitly list?

Note that library(pcre) now requires PCRE2 (libpcre2-8.so or similar) – I think that stable 8.* used PCRE1 … the two libraries are described here: https://www.pcre.org/
See also swipl-devel/packages/pcre/cmake/FindPCRE.cmake

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I have just updated my forked homebrew package of 9.0.3 to address this. Tap nobrowser/personal and get swi-prolog-fixed if you would like to try (and I’d appreciate hearing if it works).

I did not notice before because I have both pcre and pcre2 installed, so the dependency was satisfied for the old one even though it proceeded to use the new one on my Mac.

–
Ian

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@nobrowser Your tap worked great and has pcre support, thank you!