On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:56:35PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: > So, I guess the question is A) can I just use the old libicu that was already > installed? B) how to I force this to use the new version in /usr/local/lib > instead of the old version in /usr/lib?
ICU comes with a script called icu-config that the CouchDB build process uses to gather information for linking and compiling, and what not. Whatever icu-config script is found first on the path when you run ./configure is the one that decides what libraries are linked against. Run the following two commands to see what your default setup is: icu-config --cppflags-searchpath icu-config --ldflags-searchpath There are four ways you can configure this, all using environment variables: * Alter your PATH so that the chosen icu-config script is found first * Override ICU_CONFIG to point to the chosen icu-config script * Override ICU_LOCAL_CFLAGS to the value of "icu-config --cppflags-searchpath" * Override ICU_LOCAL_LDFLAGS to the value of "icu-config --ldflags-searchpath" Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
