#1309: perl Configure.pl finds icu but doesn't set it up
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Reporter: getpsimon | Type: bug
Status: new | Priority: normal
Milestone: | Component: build
Version: 1.8.0 | Severity: medium
Keywords: | Lang:
Patch: | Platform: linux
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Comment(by doughera):
Replying to [comment:6 getpsimon]:
> I followed Andy's suggestion, apt-get install libicu-dev, and parrot
installed flawlessly. However, parrot won't install if I build ICU from
source unless I add /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Ah ha -- that was the missing piece. I didn't know you were trying to
build from a locally-installed version.
There's enough blame here for everyone to share some. icu-config should
perhaps have given more helpful flags (like including the approriate
-rpath incantations). If you want parrot to use libraries from a location
not normally searched by ld.so, then perhaps you should be expected to
make appropriate local adjustments (either by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
running ldconfig or whatever is appropriate on your system). And finally,
even if parrot doesn't automatically add the appropriate flags, it should
at least warn you earlier in a more helpful way what is going on.
I see two easy possibilities for things parrot could do better:
1. Parrot's icu test could actually try linking a program against -licu
and running the program before deciding that the user actually has a
useful icu library.
2. Towards the end of the configuration process, Configure.pl could run a
quick sanity check to make sure all the flags and libraries will work
together, and print a helpful error message if there is any problem. (More
details on how to do such a check are in RT #41168.)
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1309#comment:7>
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