Francois Gouget wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
Here is a list of the soft dependencies. We suggest packagersICU
install each and every last of those before building the package. These libraries are not dependencies in the RPM sense. In DEB packages, they should appear as "Suggests" or "Recommends", as the case may be.
Adds support for BiDi to Wine. http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/. Instructions for building (and testing) with BiDi are available at http://winehq.org/?issue=218#How%20To%20Set%20Up%20BiDi%20Support
The problem with ICU is that, iirc, it introduces a dependency on libstdc++, and, afaik, libstdc++ binary compatiblity is broken quite often.
This is probably not an issue for the Debian packages which we can expect to be rebuilt whenever a libstdc++ becomes the Debian standard. But it's a problem if one wants to build a somewhat generic RPM package that can be installed on anything from RedHat 8 to Fedora Core 3, or on RedHat, Mandrake and SUSE.
So if the Package Maintainer's guide recommends building with ICU, it should also mention this issue.
Sounds fair. I'll also mention that I'm working on moving the dependency out of the core wine functionality. I.e., if the dependency is not there, it's just BiDi that won't work.
Shachar
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