Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

[Warren Young]

On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support?
> 
> Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently
> support.  Perhaps PTC upstream.

If there were such a mode, would it be allowed to enable it, since that would effectively put libpcre into Base?


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