Previously it would result in neither pcre library being detected:
checking for getnameinfo... (cached) yes
configure: WARNING: Ignoring pcre2 even if it's available
test: =: unexpected operator
Enabling support for client-specific tags.
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... (cached) yes
Enabling compression support.
test: =: unexpected operator
test: =: unexpected operator
configure: error: Detected neither pcre2 nor pcre library.