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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/20/20 3:35 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">icu-config is no longer available on Debian/Ubuntu, for background
see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.debian.org/898820" moz-do-not-send="true">https://bugs.debian.org/898820</a></pre>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Is it worth pointing out that Debian/Ubuntu
are becoming real PITAs? From the bug:<br>
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</font><tt>libicu-dev is not multi-arch aware, causing the i386
version to conflict with the amd64 one which makes it impossible
to install both. As a result the
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libicu*.so symbolic links are missing so
that developing 32 bit applications using this library is
impossible on a 64 bit system.</tt><br>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Fedora handles this problem <i>just fine</i>:</font><br>
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<tt>$ grep libicu-devel /var/log/rpmpkgs </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.i686.rpm</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.x86_64.rpm</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>$ ls -l /usr/bin/icu-config*</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 205 May 28 2018
/usr/bin/icu-config</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22011 Jul 25 2019
/usr/bin/icu-config-32</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22019 Jul 25 2019
/usr/bin/icu-config-64</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/icu-config*</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.x86_64</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.i686</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.i686</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>libicu-devel-63.2-3.fc31.x86_64</tt><br>
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<font face="FreeSerif">The main script is a 32/64-bit selector
script which then calls the right arch-specific binary, and the
relevant symlinks are all correct in /usr/lib{,64}.<br>
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Not that I'm interested in a distro war, but some of us are
getting darned tired of Debian/Ubuntu's high-handed <i>purity</i>
demands, virtually demanding that everyone else fall over for
them.</font><br>
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