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

[Stephan Oepen]

hiya,

i'm much in favor of reducing the number of supported build configuratipns, so ICU and relevant Boost components as prerequisites sounds desirable to me.

best, oe



On 9. sep. 2011, at 11:42, Bernd Kiefer <kiefer at dfki.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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,
>    Bernd
> 
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