[developers] [pet] PET ticket #12: fails to compile if ICU headers are missing, even if configured --without-icu

Berthold Crysmann crysmann at ifk.uni-bonn.de
Fri Sep 9 12:30:13 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:09 +0800, Francis Bond wrote:
> I would be happy for this to be required: all grammars I use require unicode.
> 

Same here: all grammars I maintain depend on it. 

B

> On 9 September 2011 17:55, Yi Zhang <yzhang at coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> > i too would like to see ICU as a required dependent for PET. the code for non-ICU usage is ad-hoc and is not compiling anyway now. and there seems to be no good way of defining the proper behavior of this multilingual parser without appropriate Unicode handling.
> >
> > best,
> > yi
> >
> >>
> >> On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Bernd Kiefer wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> i'm pondering on this ticket, and as it seems to me, nowadays
> >>> ICU is an indispensable part of PET, especially since for example
> >>> on my Ubuntu 10.10, boost-regex-dev also depends on ICU. Is there
> >>> anyone depending on PET build without ICU?
> >>>
> >>> If not, i'd like to make the installation of ICU, boost-graph,
> >>> and boost-regex to be required prerequisites to building PET.
> >>> Are there arguments against this?
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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