Bug#890265: systemd: journalctl compiled without pattern matching support

[Michael Biebl]

Am 12.02.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Calum Mackay:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 237-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The -g/--grep option was recently added to the man page, but:
> 
> 	$ journalctl --grep=blah
> 	Compiled without pattern matching support
> 
> this could be a man page bug, of course, although it's a useful feature.

As the message says, systemd has been compiled without pattern matching
support. This is deliberate, as this would required linking against
pcre2, which would basically make this library mandatory on every
system. That's why I hesitated to enable that feature.





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