On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:40:02PM +0100, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> I have the icuuc libraries here.
>
> /opt/local/lib/libicuuc.55.1.dylib
> /opt/local/lib/libicuuc.55.dylib
> /opt/local/lib/libicuuc.a
> /opt/local/lib/libicuuc.dylib
>
> and they are pretty recent.
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 19 20 Apr 01:19 /opt/local/lib/libicuuc.dylib ->
> libicuuc.55.1.dylib
>
> but I have no idea what icu-config is, and why I need it. I can probably
> install it on the mac, but why do I need it?
The varios "foo-config" programs bundled with some open-source
libraries provide programmatic interfaces to determine the compiler
flags and linker options needed to use those libraries. Hence:
icu-config
krb5-config
pcre-config
...
And also the generic pkg-config front-end to software that installs
compatible "foo.pc" files.
--
Viktor.
