Failing to compile with ICU support error on Ubuntu
Hi, I am trying to build the latest postgresql on my ubuntu docker instance. But its failing to compile it even when ICU related libraries are installed. Compilation fails with ``` 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. ``` config.log has following error ``` configure:8442: error: ICU library not found ``` I am running on (my docker instance is) ``` $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=23.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lunar DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 23.04" ``` And when I checked, it looks like icu related libraries are there too ``` $ sudo apt-get install icu-devtools libicu-dev libicu72 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done icu-devtools is already the newest version (72.1-3ubuntu2). libicu-dev is already the newest version (72.1-3ubuntu2). libicu72 is already the newest version (72.1-3ubuntu2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ``` I am pretty new to postgresql's source code and don't yet know whats the use of ICU libs. So I tried building it with --without-icu and it worked. But I am not able to figure out whats going wrong here with ICU libs. It would be good if I can get a proper, clean build. Thanks, Siddharth
Re: Failing to compile with ICU support error on Ubuntu
Thanks a lot Erik. It worked. Not sure if the build script gave any specific error about this or I just missed that... :) On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 5:17 PM Erik Wienhold wrote: > > On 19/08/2023 13:26 CEST Siddharth Karandikar < > siddharth.karandi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am trying to build the latest postgresql on my ubuntu docker instance. > > But its failing to compile it even when ICU related libraries are > installed. > > > > Compilation fails with > > ``` > > 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. > > ``` > > You also need to install pkg-config with which ./configure looks up libs. > > -- > Erik >
Re: Failing to compile with ICU support error on Ubuntu
Thanks for the reference. A good place to go for any build related errors. - Siddharth On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 5:46 PM Erik Wienhold wrote: > > On 19/08/2023 14:03 CEST Siddharth Karandikar < > siddharth.karandi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks a lot Erik. It worked. > > Not sure if the build script gave any specific error about this or I just > > missed that... :) > > No, the output of ./configure only says "not found" without giving the > exact > reason. The docs have details about the configure options [1] where > pkg-config > is mentioned for --with-icu. > > [1] > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-procedure.html#CONFIGURE-OPTIONS > > -- > Erik >
