The configure option "--with-pcre" worked until httpd 2.4.52, but it does not work anymore with httpd 2.4.53.

Configure output:

...
checking for -pcre2-config... no
checking for -pcre-config... no
checking for pcre2-config... no
checking for pcre-config... pcre-config
configure: error: Did not find working script at pcre-config


Script to reproduce the problem:

#!/bin/bash

set -e

tar xvf httpd-2.4.53.tar.bz2
tar xvf pcre-8.45.tar.bz2
tar xvf expat-2.4.8.tar.bz2

(
    cd httpd-2.4.53/srclib
    tar xvf ../../apr-1.7.0.tar.bz2
    tar xvf ../../apr-util-1.6.1.tar.bz2

    ln -s apr-1.7.0 apr
    ln -s apr-util-1.6.1 apr-util
)

cd expat-2.4.8
./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/expat
make install

cd ..

cd pcre-8.45
./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/pcre --disable-cpp
make install

cd ..

cd httpd-2.4.53

# Workaround:
# PATH="/var/tmp/pcre/bin:${PATH}"
# export PATH

./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/httpd --with-included-apr --with-expat=/var/tmp/expat --with-pcre=/var/tmp/pcre
make install