ICU? - Externals

19 years ago by Richard Lynch — view source

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My box doesn't have ICU and I cannot install it in /usr/local/lib

Therefore, I installed it in my homedir. Actually, ~/cvs/icu

My configure line (for ICU) was:

That seemed to work okay, I guess...

gmake and all that didn't complain, at least.

Then I configure PHP CVS -r 6 from source with:

confiugre complains that a "simple" feature is messed up, and the
debug log is telling me about libicu18n.so.34 not finding
libicuuc.so.34

[shrug] They're in the same dir, exactly where I said they would be.
Maybe it will "just work"...

make seems to work

But php -v complains that libicu18n.so.34 can't find libicuuc.so.34

Hmmm. Maybe I messed up.

./icu-config --libdir even agrees with what I would expect.

So, okay, let's go test my ICU install...

Errr.

How do I make this thing go?

All the docs I've seen so far jump right from Market-Speak to "here's
your C API!!!"

Is there an 'icu-test' somewhere that will tell me ICU is installed
and working properly?

ICU's gmake test is ran merrily along, and has spit out what seems
like a thousand ---OK lines.

But I didn't turn "on" any of the fancy choices like "exhaustive" and
whatever it was that is long-gone from my screen buffer.

Could it really do that if one ICU library couldn't find the other ICU
library?... I suspect not, but what do I know?

[Okay, so we already know I don't know a whole hell of a lot...]

Or, taking another tack: Can I just rip out this ICU stuff from PHP
for now? I thought I read somewhere it was gonna be required in 6...

I really don't need it, afaict, and it's just giving me grief.