diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 4221b7906..f64afed4f 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2694,3 +2694,4 @@ seen. gmtime warning still there
 - Removed all the FLAGS_TS8 stuff (no longer used)
 - Fixed some operoverride bugs regarding halfops found by Sinus (#0001465)
 - Cleaned up the /kick code to make it a bit faster
+- Reactivated TRE compile
diff --git a/autoconf/configure.in b/autoconf/configure.in
index 669dd2c53..67f153db9 100644
--- a/autoconf/configure.in
+++ b/autoconf/configure.in
@@ -370,15 +370,19 @@ IRCDLIBS="$IRCDLIBS -lresolv "
 ;;
 esac
 
-dnl AC_MSG_RESULT(configuring TRE regex library)
-dnl cur_dir=`pwd`
-dnl cd extras/tre
-dnl ./configure --disable-agrep --disable-shared --disable-system-abi --disable-wchar --disable-multibyte --prefix=$cur_dir/extras/regexp
-dnl AC_MSG_RESULT(compiling TRE regex library)
-dnl make 
-dnl AC_MSG_RESULT(installing TRE regex library)
-dnl make install
-dnl cd $cur_dir
+AC_MSG_RESULT(extracting TRE regex library)
+cur_dir=`pwd`
+cd extras
+tar xfz tre.tar.gz
+dnl REMEMBER TO CHANGE WITH A NEW RELEASE!
+AC_MSG_RESULT(configuring TRE regex library)
+cd tre-0.6.4
+./configure --disable-agrep --disable-shared --disable-system-abi --disable-wchar --disable-multibyte --prefix=$cur_dir/extras/regexp
+AC_MSG_RESULT(compiling TRE regex library)
+make 
+AC_MSG_RESULT(installing TRE regex library)
+make install
+cd $cur_dir
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal ircdcron/ircdchk)
 chmod 0700 unreal
 chmod 0700 ircdcron/ircdchk
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index aaf331912..f6c73041d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9987,6 +9987,22 @@ IRCDLIBS="$IRCDLIBS -lresolv "
 ;;
 esac
 
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: extracting TRE regex library" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}extracting TRE regex library" >&6
+cur_dir=`pwd`
+cd extras
+tar xfz tre.tar.gz
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: configuring TRE regex library" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}configuring TRE regex library" >&6
+cd tre-0.6.4
+./configure --disable-agrep --disable-shared --disable-system-abi --disable-wchar --disable-multibyte --prefix=$cur_dir/extras/regexp
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: compiling TRE regex library" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}compiling TRE regex library" >&6
+make
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: installing TRE regex library" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}installing TRE regex library" >&6
+make install
+cd $cur_dir
 ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal ircdcron/ircdchk"
 cat >confcache <<\_ACEOF
 # This file is a shell script that caches the results of configure