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673	Parrot 1.1.0 build on OS X with Fink ICU package	urkle		"On Mac OS X Leopard, the system provides ICU libraries (from Apple), however, they don't provide the headers (odd?).  So, Fink provides an icu-devel package that includes the headers..  The issue is, the headers are locate in 

 /sw/include/unicode

and the libraries are in

 /usr/lib

and the shared files are in 

 /usr/share/icu

You can see how this will cause lots of confusion.  The icu-config provided by the fink package sets the CFLAGS correctly with a -I/sw/include, however parrot doesn't seem to use that at all.. So I do this

perl Configure.pl --icuheaders=/usr/include --icushared=/usr/lib

And configure detects ICU, but it doesn't build correctly. there are frequent errors where I have to manually patch config files and make files because ""/usr/lib"" is added directly to the LDFLAGS without the preceding -L.

I don't recall having this issue with Parrot 1.0.0 on OS X.

Now, if I ""symlink"" the unicode directory OVER to /usr/include, everything builds fine without the need to pass any arguments to Configure.pl


"	bug	closed	normal		configure	1.1.0	medium	wontfix		jkeenan			darwin