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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Yuri Dario <mc...@mclink.it> on 2012/03/03 22:30:53 UTC

Building with system ICU

Hi,

it seems to be that building with system ICU is not allowed.

Also my linux bot does not build vcl, because gbuild wants icule 
library into solver/.../lib directory.

I prefer to have a system icu under os2, but I can't find a way to fix
above icule problem with gbuild.

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	Yuri Dario

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Re: Building with system ICU

Posted by Yuri Dario <mc...@mclink.it>.
Hi Pedro,


> When I last tried there would be linking errors.

here I can't even reach that point, because gbuild wants icule.lib 
inside solver tree... (instead of using system library...)



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	Yuri Dario

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Re: Building with system ICU

Posted by Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>.
On 03/05/12 06:05, Yuri Dario wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
>
>
>> ICU was the first real hairy monster I found when I started
>> looking at the OpenOffice code
> here the same :-(
>
> can you check if vcl builds for you with --system-icu?
>
> thanks
>

When I last tried there would be linking errors.
I am glad it failed because FreeBSD uses icu 4.8.x
which is very incompatible. I would think older
versions of ICU up to 4.6 may work.

Pedro.

Re: Building with system ICU

Posted by Yuri Dario <mc...@mclink.it>.
Hi Pedro,


> ICU was the first real hairy monster I found when I started
> looking at the OpenOffice code

here the same :-(

can you check if vcl builds for you with --system-icu? 

thanks

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Bye,

	Yuri Dario

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Re: Building with system ICU

Posted by Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>.
On 03/03/12 16:30, Yuri Dario wrote:
> Hi,  it seems to be that building with system ICU is not allowed.  Also my linux bot does not build vcl, because gbuild wants icule  library into solver/.../lib directory.  I prefer to have a system icu under os2, but I can't find a way to fix above icule problem with gbuild.

ICU was the first real hairy monster I found when I started
looking at the OpenOffice code: modern icu versions are
incompatible with the obsolete version we carry. Updating it
involves a lot of work and should probably be considered in
an independent branch for 4.0.

cheers,

Pedro.