TLDR; Use the exim mirror. Exim was built by Philip Hazel who is also the
author of PCRE, so it's about as official as it could be. Better than a
shady Sourceforge one!

https://ftp.exim.org/pub/pcre/

Made a brief issue about this in my build-nginx script:
https://github.com/jaygooby/build-nginx/issues/6

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 17:05, Zach Mitchell <zlmitche@syr.edu> wrote:

> Hey all,
> Just stumbled upon that https://www.pcre.org/ no longer allows the
> download of PCRE-8.45 via their FTP so I'm at a loss on how to building
> nginx from source. Their site describes that they now have PCRE2 but every
> search I have done on it says that NGINX requires PCRE version 8.X.
>
> Has someone figured out how to build with PCRE2?
>
> Is there a better secure mirror for PCRE?
>
> Thanks,
> Zach Mitchell
>
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