diff --git a/recipes/pcre/Makefile b/recipes/pcre/Makefile
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+name = pcre
+version = 8.44
+URL = https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-$(version).tar.gz
+
+CONFIGURE_OPTIONS_USER = --enable-utf8 \
+	--enable-unicode-properties \
+	--enable-pcre8 \
+	--enable-pcre16 \
+	--enable-pcre32 \
+	--with-match-limit-recursion=8192
+
+
+SYSCONF ?= ../../
+include $(SYSCONF)/package.mk
diff --git a/recipes/pcre/README b/recipes/pcre/README
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+man pages are currently in $(PREFIX)/man and that is why there is no -man split
+they belong in $(PREFIX)/share/man