http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/poco/files/poco-1.4.4-patch-for-libpcre-8.32.patch we do not want to mix system pcre with bundled pcre, but we have to, as poco uses internal interfaces. --- Foundation/Makefile.orig Tue Mar 19 21:02:36 2013 +++ Foundation/Makefile Tue Mar 19 21:09:05 2013 @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ pcre_utf8_objects = pcre_ucd pcre_tables ifdef POCO_UNBUNDLED SYSLIBS += -lpcre -lz + objects += $(pcre_utf8_objects) # unicode.cpp uses internal pcre tables else objects += $(zlib_objects) $(pcre_objects) $(pcre_utf8_objects) endif