[Bug 1247024] Re: icu-config lies about include dir

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Please stop using icu-config, instead use provided pkg-config files.

Icu has transitioned to be multiarch, and thus one can have i686, amd64,
armhf etc libicu-dev's co-installed and icu-config is not flexible
enough to tell one which one should be used.

pkg-config on the other hand can resolve it.

Furthermore, one doesn't need to add /usr/include/$(tripplet) cflags /
search directories as they are default in the compiler.

icu-config cannot encode any single architecture.

** Changed in: icu (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox)

** Changed in: icu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  icu-config lies about include dir

Status in “icu” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The include dir is no longer PREFIX/include, but rather
  PREFIX/include/x86_64-linux-gnu.

  This breaks building parrot, nqp and rakudo (Perl6) from source. And I
  guess other source builds which rely on libicu are also affected.

  A patch how icu-config should look like is attached, but I dunno if
  this is a generated file.

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