[tlbuild] starting builds (kfreebsd-amd64)

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Alan Braslau wrote:

>> And if so, what is the default search order of the linker? (1) first a
>> shared library in all possible directories, and then a static one or (2) in
>> each directory first a shared and then a static library?  In case the
>> default is (1) is there a linker option to enforce (2)?
>
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.21.51.20110421

Hi Alan,

so I am fairly sure the search order is (2)

>> Could you try to build the ICU libraries from the ICU-4.6 distribution as,
>> i.e., http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.6/icu4c-4_6-src.tgz.
>>
>
> Does not seem to handle kfreebsd; I have not looked into the debian patches to
> v.4.4, though
>
> $ runConfigureICU -h
> Usage: runConfigureICU [ -h, --help ]  [ --enable-debug | --disable-release ]
> platform [ configurearg ... ]
>
> Options: -h, --help         Print this message and exit
>         --enable-debug     Enable support for debugging
>         --disable-release  Disable presetting optimization flags
>
> The following names can be supplied as the argument for platform:

Oops, I didn't think about runConfigureICU, but rather directly running
configure.  However, I forgot to mention this.  In view of more recent
results this is a dead end.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>