Now uses the Haskell Glob library, rather than pcre-light, avoiding the need to install libpcre. Currently done only for Cabal or when the Makefile is made to use -DWITH_GLOB

Limit.hs

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ module Limit where
 import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX
 import qualified Data.Set as S
 import qualified Data.Map as M
-#ifndef WITH_ANDROID
+#ifdef WITH_GLOB
+import System.FilePath.Glob (simplify, compile, match)
+#else
 import Text.Regex.PCRE.Light.Char8
 import System.Path.WildMatch
 #endif
@@ -85,10 +87,12 @@ limitExclude :: MkLimit
 limitExclude glob = Right $ const $ return . not . matchglob glob
 
 matchglob :: String -> Annex.FileInfo -> Bool
-#ifdef WITH_ANDROID
-matchglob _ _ = error "glob matching not supported"
-#else
 matchglob glob (Annex.FileInfo { Annex.matchFile = f }) =
+#ifdef WITH_GLOB
+	match pattern f
+  where
+	pattern = simplify $ compile glob
+#else
 	isJust $ match cregex f []
   where
 	cregex = compile regex []

Makefile

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ BASEFLAGS=-Wall -outputdir $(GIT_ANNEX_TMP_BUILD_DIR) -IUtility
 # you can turn off some of these features.
 #
 # If you're using an old version of yesod, enable -DWITH_OLD_YESOD
-FEATURES?=$(GIT_ANNEX_LOCAL_FEATURES) -DWITH_ASSISTANT -DWITH_S3 -DWITH_WEBDAV -DWITH_WEBAPP -DWITH_PAIRING -DWITH_XMPP -DWITH_DNS
+FEATURES?=$(GIT_ANNEX_LOCAL_FEATURES) -DWITH_ASSISTANT -DWITH_S3 -DWITH_WEBDAV -DWITH_WEBAPP -DWITH_PAIRING -DWITH_XMPP -DWITH_DNS -DWITH_GLOB
 
 bins=git-annex
 mans=git-annex.1 git-annex-shell.1
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ android:
 	$(MAKE) Build/SysConfig.hs
 	GHC=$$HOME/.ghc/android-14/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/bin/arm-unknown-linux-androideabi-ghc \
 	CC=$$HOME/.ghc/android-14/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc \
-	FEATURES="-DWITH_ANDROID -DWITH_ASSISTANT -DWITH_DNS" \
+	FEATURES="-DWITH_ANDROID -DWITH_ASSISTANT -DWITH_GLOB -DWITH_DNS" \
 	ANDROID=1 $(MAKE) fast
 
 # used by ./ghci

debian/changelog

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 git-annex (3.20130208) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Now uses the Haskell uuid library, rather than needing a uuid program.
+  * Now uses the Haskell Glob library, rather than pcre-light, avoiding
+    the need to install libpcre. Currently done only for Cabal or when
+    the Makefile is made to use -DWITH_GLOB
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:52:01 -0400
 

doc/install/Fedora.mdwn

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Should be as simple as: `yum install git-annex`
 Older version? Here's an installation recipe for Fedora 14 through 15.
 
 <pre>
-sudo yum install ghc cabal-install pcre-devel
+sudo yum install ghc cabal-install
 git clone git://git-annex.branchable.com/ git-annex
 cd git-annex
 git checkout ghc7.0

doc/install/OSX.mdwn

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ the app for OSX Lion.
 
 <pre>
 brew update
-brew install haskell-platform git ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils pcre libgsasl gnutls libidn libgsasl pkg-config libxml2
+brew install haskell-platform git ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils libgsasl gnutls libidn libgsasl pkg-config libxml2
 brew link libxml2
 cabal update
 PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
@@ -38,10 +38,7 @@ The version provided by Macports is too old to work with current versions of git
 Then execute
 
 <pre>
-sudo port install git-core ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils pcre gnutls libxml2 libgsasl pkgconfig
+sudo port install git-core ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils gnutls libxml2 libgsasl pkgconfig
-
-sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pcre.h  /usr/include/pcre.h # This is hack that allows pcre-light to find pcre
-
 sudo cabal update
 PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
 cabal install c2hs git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin

doc/install/ScientificLinux5.mdwn

@@ -29,23 +29,11 @@ don't want things to be system wide)
 
     $ export PATH=/usr/hs/bin:$PATH
 
-On SL5 pcre is at version 6.6 which is far too old for one of the
-dependancies that git-annex requires. Therefore the user must install
-an updated version of _pcre_ either from source or another method, I
-chose to install it from source and by hand into /usr/local
-
-    $ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/8.30/pcre-8.30.tar.gz/download
-    $ tar zxvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz
-    $ cd pcre-8.30
-    $ ./configure
-    $ make && make install
-
 Once the packages are installed and are in your execution path, using
 cabal to configure and build git-annex just makes life easier, it
 should install all the needed dependancies.
 
     $ cabal update
-    $ cabal install pcre-light --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/include
     $ git clone git://git.kitenet.net/git-annex
     $ cd git-annex
     $ make git-annex.1

doc/install/fromscratch.mdwn

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ quite a lot.
   * [The Haskell Platform](http://haskell.org/platform/) (GHC 7.4 or newer)
   * [mtl](http://hackage.haskell.org.package/mtl) (2.1.1 or newer)
   * [MissingH](http://github.com/jgoerzen/missingh/wiki)
-  * [pcre-light](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcre-light)
   * [utf8-string](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/utf8-string)
   * [SHA](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SHA)
   * [dataenc](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dataenc)
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ quite a lot.
   * [DAV](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/DAV) (optional)
   * [SafeSemaphore](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SafeSemaphore)
   * [UUID](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/uuid)
+  * [Glob](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Glob)
 * Optional haskell stuff, used by the [[assistant]] and its webapp (edit Makefile to disable)
   * [stm](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm)
     (version 2.3 or newer)

git-annex.cabal

@@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ Executable git-annex
   Build-Depends: MissingH, hslogger, directory, filepath,
    unix, containers, utf8-string, network (>= 2.0), mtl (>= 2.1.1),
    bytestring, old-locale, time,
-   pcre-light, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, json,
+   extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, json,
    base (>= 4.5 && < 4.8), monad-control, transformers-base, lifted-base,
    IfElse, text, QuickCheck >= 2.1, bloomfilter, edit-distance, process,
-   SafeSemaphore, UUID
+   SafeSemaphore, UUID, Glob
   -- Need to list these because they're generated from .hsc files.
   Other-Modules: Utility.Touch Utility.Mounts
   Include-Dirs: Utility
   C-Sources: Utility/libdiskfree.c Utility/libmounts.c
   Extensions: CPP
-  GHC-Options: -threaded
+  GHC-Options: -threaded -DWITH_GLOB
 
   if flag(S3)
     Build-Depends: hS3
@@ -123,15 +123,15 @@ Test-Suite test
   Main-Is: test.hs
   Build-Depends: testpack, HUnit, MissingH, hslogger, directory, filepath,
    unix, containers, utf8-string, network, mtl (>= 2.1.1), bytestring,
-   old-locale, time, pcre-light, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA,
+   old-locale, time, extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA,
    process, json, HTTP, base (>= 4.5 && < 4.7), monad-control,
    transformers-base, lifted-base, IfElse, text, QuickCheck >= 2.1,
-   bloomfilter, edit-distance, process, SafeSemaphore
+   bloomfilter, edit-distance, process, SafeSemaphore, Glob
   Other-Modules: Utility.Touch
   Include-Dirs: Utility
   C-Sources: Utility/libdiskfree.c
   Extensions: CPP
-  GHC-Options: -threaded
+  GHC-Options: -threaded -DWITH_GLOB
 
 source-repository head
   type: git