Bug 84520 – dia fails to compile: libunicode not found

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Bug 84520 - dia fails to compile: libunicode not found


Summary:	dia fails to compile: libunicode not found


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	dia
Classification:	Other
Component:	general
Version:	0.90
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal major
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Dia maintainers
QA Contact:	Dia maintainers

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Reported:	2002-06-07 19:12 UTC by ceder
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

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Description ceder 2002-06-07 19:12:22 UTC

I have installed libunicode-0.7 from 
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/libunicode/ but when I 
attempt to build dia, I get this in the output from configure:

> [...]
> checking for libunicode... not found
> [...]
> Unicode not present. This will NOT build.
> Now type make to build dia.

I see that configure.in is looking for a unicode-config script. No such
script is installed by libunicode-0.7.

(The exit status of the configure script should be non-zero in this case.)

The documentation should mention what version of libunicode that is
needed, and where it can be fetched.  I suspect that I'm using an
older or newer version of libunicode than dia expects.

Comment 1 Lars Clausen 2002-06-10 14:26:03 UTC

Actually, you're using a wrong libunicode.  You want the one that's with Gnome, sometimes known as libart_lgpl.  Look in ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libunicode.  The FAQ is updated to reflect this.