David Bomba

Centos PCRE repo is 6.6, and cannot be YUM REMOVED without removing hundred of dependancies…

I needed to install PCRE with unicode support which meant compiling my own package.

First you need to install all the correct libs


yum install gcc-c++

then download latest pcre from

http://www.pcre.org/

unpack and configure


./configure --prefix=/usr
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/pcre-8.10
--enable-utf8
--enable-unicode-properties



make



make check



make install


the libraries will be installed to /usr/lib and you will need to add a new path for your DSO loader create a file called pcre.conf in the directory


/etc/ld.so.conf.d


and insert the path


/usr/lib

save and close and update the cache by running


ldconfig

restart your web server and check phpinfo that your PCRE module has been updated to 8.11 (or latest).