Icu header files missing

img_man

Hi, thanks.

Ok, but there's an icu folder in that directory. Shouldn't it have what I need? I modified the makefiles for several of the other folders to include ./icu/, and that seems to of gotten them over the hump.

SGaist

If I'm not mistaken, this folder contains only headers so nothing to link against

img_man

Ah, right. I do have libicu-dev installed, but hadn't thought to point QT to my system /usr/include directory. I'll add it to the end of the list. Thanks.

img_man

On another note, if these files are required in the system, shouldn't QT look there by default?

SGaist

ICU is not required, unless you want to build QtWebKit

img_man

Ok, but in the make files for QtWebKit, it should point to the systems /usr/include directory, no?

SGaist

I haven't checked recently but I'm not sure that ICU is installed by default on linux

img_man

That's not really the issue here. Even if I do have them installed, the make file will never find them, unless I go and edit it. It's not a good idea to make people edit make files in order to install the framework. If it is installed, it will probably be in /usr/include. The make files should point there by default.

SGaist

Are you sure you have ICU's headers installed ? Installing the library doesn't mean that the headers are also there. Generally they are part of the corresponding dev-package

img_man

I'm sure. As I mentioned earlier, libicu-dev is installed.

img_man

I think you're still missing the point. How in the world does the make file know if I have ICU installed or not? It doesn't even try to look into /usr/include.

SGaist

The makefile doesn't. It's the configure scripts that searches for installed elements to do the automatic enabling/disabling of features.

img_man

Well, really the configure script uses my qconf file to tell the make files where to look. But yes, it happens when you execute the configuration. I will add /usr/include.