Re: icu -- is it the "recommended" OpenLDAP unicode implementation?

[Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>]

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Howard Chu wrote:
> Xin LI wrote:
>> I'd like to get an inquiry about the state of OpenLDAP's unicode
>> implementation.  Recently there is some reports that the FreeBSD port of
>> OpenLDAP 2.4.x will pick up icu automatically if it is installed,
>> according to the configure script, it seems that there is no way to
>> disable this behavior (i.e. by --disable-icu or something similar), so
>> it seems that a patch will be necessary if the user does not want to use
>> icu.
>>
>> So my question is that, is it recommended to use icu?  I am thinking
>> about making icu an mandatory dependency of the port, but I guess it
>> would be good to ask the developers before making such changes :)
> 
> Nothing in the current code base actually uses icu. That configure check
> was added in anticipation of future work. It's safe to ignore it for now.

I see, so it might be ok for me to just patch out the icu detection code?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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