[haiku-development] Re: Should ICU headers be installed?

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:47:43 +0100

On 2010-01-26 at 16:08:23 [+0100], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2010-01-26 at 16:06:52 [+0100], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The point here is not the libraries but the headers, we use
> > > libicu***.so in WebKit. But as we want people to work on the port we
> > > need the ICU headers (for the moment we provide an archive to extract
> > > in /boot/common/header).
> > > Maybe, instead of including them by default, we can afford an
> > > OptionalPackage
> > > (with a warning that it should be used with caution).
> > 
> > All headers are already provided as optional packages anyway. I'd say go
> > for it if you need it...
> > 
> > I don't have much time to handle it right now so if someone else wants to
> > ...
> 
> What's the best place for the headers?

I have added the optional package 'ICU-devel', hopefully containing all the 
required headers (to be found in 3rdparty/unicode).

Stephan/Maxime/Ryan: please check it out and tell me if that is is enough to 
make WebKit happy or if anything is missing.

cheers,
        Oliver

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