On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> What's the task list for being able to upgrade ICU to something current?
> This is pissing me off sufficiently that I WILL DO IT once I know what it is.
>
> The one we've got is an albatross. It can't build with g++ on AIX
> (because it has IBM compiler specific **OPTIMISATION** flags in the
> default AIX config), and on Solaris I find this joy:
>
> $ file src/extend.o
> src/extend.o: ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable SPARC Version 1
> $ file icu/source/i18n/anytrans.o
> icu/source/i18n/anytrans.o: ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable SPARCV9 Version 1
>
> The sodding thing insists on building LP64.
> (And that's *AFTER* forcing the compiler flags to it to defined _XP6, else
> a system header bails out with #error, and getting the sysadmin to install
> gnu make, and putting gnu make first in my path (Lo stupid! I'd invoked
> make with a absolute path. DAMN WELL USE THAT))
Here's what I currently use to get around various problems while trying
to build on Solaris 8 with Sun's CC compiler (this assumes you are using
perl5.6 or higher)
#!/bin/sh
perl Configure.pl --cc=cc --cxx=CC --link=CC
MAKE=GNUmake GNUmake
Note two tricks: First, tell Configure.pl explicitly which C, C++, and
linker to use. Configure.pl will pass that information on to ICU's
configure, overriding ICU's built-in biases.
Second, deep down in ICU, it calls a 'make' command by searching
in the environment and, if that fails, by looking for either 'gmake' or
'make' by name (if memory serves). To fix this, you need to re-work one
of the $(INVOKE) Makefile macros down in icu/ somewhere to include passing
$(MAKE) along.
Meantime, what I have above works for me -- but I'm using a version of the
C compiler that doesn't emit v9 code by default -- it still uses v8, so
I haven't hit the 64-bit issue that you have. Still, this may get you a
bit further.
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. Mail to me will probably not go through. There was a DNS change on
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then apparently silently throws it away. This has been going on for
several days now, and is likely to continue for several more :-(.
