Icu header files missing

[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.