Easyconfigs unit test suite PASSed (see https://jenkins1.ugent.be/job/easybuild-easyconfigs-pr-builder/6566/console for more details).

This pull request is now ready for review/testing.

Please try and find someone who can tackle this; contact @boegel if you're not sure what to do.

Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 12 out of 12 (12 easyconfigs in this PR)
Linux SL 6.7, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.6.6
See https://gist.github.com/f9c9af75e01e9b0bf113 for a full test report.

for the record...this fix is needed because when compiling R-devel version and loading the PCRE module in easybuild compiled without --enable-utf then you get this error:

checking if PCRE version >= 8.10, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no
checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >= 8.10 library and headers are required

when recompiling PCRE with the --enable-utf option this issue is fixed.

In previous R release PCRE was included in the R tarball so PCRE was not a required dependency in the R easyconfig but in coming R version PCRE has to be included as a dependency because R tarball no longer includes it

I did the tests with this R tarball: https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/R-devel_2016-02-23.tar.gz

after recompiling PCRE with --enable-utf --enable-unicode-properties ./configure works.

checking if PCRE version >= 8.10, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... yes
checking if PCRE version >= 8.32... yes
checking whether PCRE support suffices... yes

This is good to go imho, thanks @pescobar!