diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.42.recipe
similarity index 57%
rename from dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe
rename to dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.42.recipe
index cbd8f0dde..9c01aa8d7 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.40.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre/libpcre-8.42.recipe
@@ -5,29 +5,42 @@ PCRE has its own native API, as well as a set of wrapper functions that \
 correspond to the POSIX regular expression API. The PCRE library is free, even \
 for building proprietary software.
 This package contains the native API."
-COPYRIGHT="1997-2017 University of Cambridge
+COPYRIGHT="1997-2018 University of Cambridge
 	2007-2012, Google Inc. All rights reserved."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.pcre.org/"
 LICENSE="PCRE"
-REVISION="3"
-SOURCE_URI="https://downloads.sf.net/pcre/pcre-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="00e27a29ead4267e3de8111fcaa59b132d0533cdfdbdddf4b0604279acbcf4f4"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="2cd04b7c887808be030254e8d77de11d3fe9d4505c39d4b15d2664ffe8bf9301"
 SOURCE_DIR="pcre-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
 
+pcreLibs="\
+	libpcre \
+	libpcrecpp \
+	libpcreposix \
+	"
+libpcreVersion="1.2.10"
+libpcrecppVersion="0.0.1"
+libpcreposixVersion="0.0.6"
+portVersionCompat="$portVersion compat >= 8"
+for i in $pcreLibs; do
+	eval "${i}VersionCompat=\"\$${i}Version compat >= \${${i}Version%%.*}\""
+done
+
 PROVIDES="
 	libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
-	lib:libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix = 1.2.8 compat >= 1
-	lib:libpcrecpp$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.0.1 compat >= 0
-	lib:libpcreposix$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.0.4 compat >= 0
+	lib:libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcreVersionCompat
+	lib:libpcrecpp$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcrecppVersionCompat
+	lib:libpcreposix$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcreposixVersionCompat
 	"
 if [ -z "$secondaryArchSuffix" ];then
-	PROVIDES="$PROVIDES
-		cmd:pcregrep = $portVersion compat >= 8
-		cmd:pcretest = $portVersion compat >= 8
-		"
+PROVIDES="$PROVIDES
+	cmd:pcregrep = $portVersionCompat
+	cmd:pcretest = $portVersionCompat
+	"
 fi
 
 REQUIRES="
@@ -36,10 +49,10 @@ REQUIRES="
 
 PROVIDES_devel="
 	libpcre${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
-	cmd:pcre_config$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= 8
-	devel:libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix = 1.2.8 compat >= 1
-	devel:libpcrecpp$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.0.1 compat >= 0
-	devel:libpcreposix$secondaryArchSuffix = 0.0.4 compat >= 0
+	cmd:pcre_config$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersionCompat
+	devel:libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcreVersionCompat
+	devel:libpcrecpp$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcrecppVersionCompat
+	devel:libpcreposix$secondaryArchSuffix = $libpcreposixVersionCompat
 	"
 REQUIRES_devel="
 	libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
@@ -53,11 +66,25 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:autoconf
 	cmd:automake
 	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
-	cmd:make
 	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
 	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:sed
 	"
 
+debugList=(
+	"$libDir"/libpcre.so.$libpcreVersion
+	"$libDir"/libpcrecpp.so.$libpcrecppVersion
+	"$libDir"/libpcreposix.so.$libpcreposixVersion
+	)
+if [ -z "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+for i in `echo "$PROVIDES" | sed -n -e \
+		"s/^[\t]*cmd:\(.*\)$secondaryArchSuffix =.*/\1/p;"`; do
+	debugList+=("$binDir"/$i)
+done
+fi
+defineDebugInfoPackage libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix "${debugList[@]}"
+
 BUILD()
 {
 	libtoolize --force --copy --install
@@ -78,7 +105,7 @@ INSTALL()
 	rm $libDir/libpcre*.la
 
 	# prepare develop/lib
-	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libpcre libpcrecpp libpcreposix
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs $pcreLibs
 	fixPkgconfig
 
 	# fix pcre-config