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<sect2>
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<title>Command explanations</title>
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<para>
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<userinput>CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2:</userinput> The
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CPPFLAGS variable is a variable that's read by the cpp program (C
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PreProcessor). The value of this variable tells the preprocessor to
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replace every instance of re_max_failures it finds by re_max_failures2
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before handing the source file to the compiler itself for compilation. This
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package has problems linking statically on certain platforms (depending
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on the Glibc version used on that system) and this construction fixes
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that problem.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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