Some more 2.12.2 testing on Solaris 11.3 x86_64: ... CC ident.o CC kwset.o CC line-log.o CC levenshtein.o CC line-range.o CC list-objects.o In file included from revision.h:5:0, from line-log.c:10: grep.h:5:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory #include <pcre.h> ^ compilation terminated. gmake: *** [line-log.o] Error 1 Configure has an option for libpcre, but its not clear to me how to fine tune it for libpcre2: $ ./configure --help | /usr/gnu/bin/grep -A 2 -i pcre --with-libpcre support Perl-compatible regexes (default is NO) ARG can be also prefix for libpcre library and headers Is it possible to use PCRE2 with Git? If so, how do I tell Git to use PCRE2? Thanks in advance. ********** $ ls /usr/local/include/pcre* /usr/local/include/pcre2.h /usr/local/include/pcre2posix.h $ ls /usr/local/lib64/libpcre* /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-16.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-32.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0.5.0 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.a /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.la /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so.1 /usr/local/lib64/libpcre2-posix.so.1.0.1