libpcre for debian ------------------ I wrote my own makefile for this (actually, it is based on the one that I used with pcre 2.x, where I had to write my own in order to get shared libraries). The upstream makefile doesn't build shared libraries properly, and I don't know enough about libtool to work out why not. The other change I made is to prefix the names of the functions in libpcreposix with "pcreposix_". This is required so they don't clash with the ones in libc. Suitable #defines have been added to pcreposix.h so that the unprefixed names can be used.