Hi, Holger Jacobs complained in pgsql-admin that in v17, if you have the ICU development libraries installed but not pkg-config, you get a somewhat unhelpful error message about ICU not being present:
|checking for pkg-config... no |checking whether to build with ICU support... yes |checking for icu-uc icu-i18n... no |configure: error: ICU library not found |If you have ICU already installed, see config.log for details on the |failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper directory. |Use --without-icu to disable ICU support. The attached patch improves things to that: |checking for pkg-config... no |checking whether to build with ICU support... yes |configure: error: ICU library not found |The ICU library could not be found because pkg-config is not available, see |config.log for details on the failure. If ICU is installed, the variables |ICU_CFLAGS and ICU_LIBS can be set explicitly in this case, or use |--without-icu to disable ICU support. Michael
