[craigcomstock]

Build the version specified in deps-packaging/pcre2.

On rhel-8 this is especially needed because libntech requires 10.34+ version of pcre2 that is not available there.

Ticket: ENT-14716
Changelog: none

together
cfengine/core#6473
#2608

[craigcomstock]

works for me on rhel-8-arm64

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-38 ~]$ uname -a
Linux ip-172-31-9-38.us-east-2.compute.internal 4.18.0-553.172.1.el8_10.aarch64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 7 00:56:50 UTC 2026 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-38 ~]$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.10 (Ootpa)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.10"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (Ootpa)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://issues.redhat.com/"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.10
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.10"
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-38 ~]$ sudo buildscripts/ci/setup-cfengine-build-host.sh
... lots of logs ...
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-38 ~]$ echo $?
0