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From: Michael Banck <[email protected]>
To: Holger Jakobs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Necessary lib on Ubuntu for 17beta3
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 09:45:37 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 09:38:16AM +0200, Holger Jakobs wrote:
> When trying to ./configure PostgreSQL 17 beta3, it complained that the ICU
> libraries weren't installed, when actually they were.
> 
> On top of the ICU libraries themselves, another, seemingly unrelated,
> package had to be installed as well.
> 
> On Ubuntu, this has to be done: apt install pkg-config
> 
> I expect this to be the same on a Debian system, and maybe others.

This is discussed here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/install-requirements.html

> A hint to this package in some README or BUILD file or in the error output
> of ./configure may be of great help.

I think you are right, the error could be improved. This is because
currently pkg-config support is not actively checked for and the
autoconf macros just fail in this case I believe.


Michael

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