Hi Solar, Try to pass CPPFLAGS="-mt -AA -D_REENTRANT" during xerces configure and hope it will pickup ICU transcoder then try build.
Thanks, Sitansu On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Martin B. <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run into a couple of problems trying to build Xerces-C 3.1.1 > against ICU 49.1.1, and could need some help... > > I try to build on an elderly SuSE SLES 10, with GCC 4.1.2. I first > installed ICU using: > > ./configure --prefix=/custom/path/icu --enable-rpath --disable-debug \ > --disable-tracing --with-library-bits=64 && make && make install > > I checked the ICU installation to be sane (i.e., binaries finding > their libs etc.). Then I attempted to build Xerces-C using: > > ./configure --enable-msgloader-icu --enable-transcoder-icu \ > --with-icu=/custom/path/icu --prefix=/custom/path/xerces \ > && make && make install > > The source gets compiled, but the build bombs out at the link stage, > more precisely the first, screen-filling libtool invocation (shortened > long list of object files): > > /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 -msse2 \ > -release 3.1 -o libxerces-c.la -rpath /custom/path/xerces/lib \ > xercesc/util/Base64.lo [...] \ > strnicmp.lo -lnsl -lpthread -Wl,-zorigin,-rpath,$ORIGIN \ > -Wl,-rpath,/custom/path/icu/lib -lpthread -ldl -lm \ > -L/custom/path/icu/lib -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lpthread \ > -ldl -lm -Wl,-zorigin,-rpath,$ORIGIN -Wl,-rpath,/custom/path/icu/lib \ > -lpthread -ldl -lm -L/custom/path/icu/lib -licui18n -licuuc -licudata \ > -lpthread -ldl -lm > > The error message is: > > /custom/path/icu/lib: file not recognized: Is a directory > > That looks suspiciously like the build appending > "-lpthread $(icu-config --ldflags)" to the libtool line twice over, > and choking on the late "-L" option contained therein. > > Confused, and suspecting the somewhat aged build environment, I > took a different machine - a Linux Mint 12 box, with GCC 4.6.1 - > and attempted the same build again. > > That one builds without problems... but a look at the build logs > reveals it didn't do what I asked it to do: > > configure:18319: checking whether we can support the ICU Transcoder > configure:18339: result: no > [...] > configure:18599: checking whether we support the ICU MsgLoader > configure:18619: result: no > [...] > configure:21971: Report: > configure:21973: File Manager: POSIX > configure:21975: Mutex Manager: POSIX > configure:21977: Transcoder: gnuiconv > configure:21979: NetAccessor: socket > configure:21981: Message Loader: inmemory > > No further information as to why ICU "couldn't be supported" was to > be had from any logfiles that I was able to find. > > I am quite confused, and cannot help but suspect that "Xerces-C with > ICU" is perhaps not as well-tested as it should be. I'm also at my > wit's end as to what I could do to make it work, ideally on both > machines. > > Help, please? > > Regards, > -- > Solar > solar rootdirectory de > >
