diff --git a/packages/devel/pcre/build b/packages/devel/pcre/build
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+++ b/packages/devel/pcre/build
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options
+
+$SCRIPTS/build toolchain
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --exec-prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --datadir=/usr/share \
+            --enable-shared \
+            --disable-static \
+            --enable-utf8 \
+            --enable-unicode-properties \
+
+make
+
+$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/devel/pcre/install b/packages/devel/pcre/install
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+++ b/packages/devel/pcre/install
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/.libs/libpcre*.so*[.0-9] $INSTALL/usr/lib
+
diff --git a/packages/devel/pcre/url b/packages/devel/pcre/url
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+++ b/packages/devel/pcre/url
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-7.9.tar.bz2
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