That's good that someone already did the PCRE2 change. I just downloaded the RHEL9 source for pcre and it compiles OK on RHEL10, but I wouldn't want to rely on maintaining it somewhere for all users to download.

Ralph

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM Mark Felder <feld@pobox.feld.me> wrote:

On 1/15/26 13:04, Ralph M wrote:
> Would it be practical to implement network encryption for IPv4, then
> circle back for IPv6 later? I don't really know what's involved in
> that, but I have several thousand clients using my own curl script to
> report, because I'm required to use encrypted connections.
>
> I tried compiling on RHEL10 last week. There's a problem there to
> address - pcre has been deprecated and replaced with pcre2. The old
> pcre is still present up to RHEL9, but it's missing in 10. I;ll take a
> look and see what I can do with it, but I'm not a hot-shot programmer so
> it might take a while.
>

Don't worry, the Debian folks already have a patch that changes Xymon to
use PCRE2. We'll get that merged.

Mark