portupgrade and ICU libraries

[Mikhail T.]

On 10.05.2013 18:38, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> Sure, if someone's willing to fix all dependencies. ;-) Seriously, the file 
> names and linking procedures are well-defined by the upstream. I don't see any 
> point of changing it. 
Dependencies don't care -- the use LIB_DEPENDS and that's that. Upstream is, 
indeed, defining the linking procedures, but nothing is using them -- because 
they are so non-standard (as most things out of IBM).

I think, making this popular port build closer to how all the rest of the 
software on FreeBSD is built is a worthy goal in its own.

> It should be much easier to fix portupgrade, e.g., something like this
> pseudo function (sorry, I am not very familiar with Ruby):

It may, indeed, be easier. My point, BOTH should happen -- unless fixing ICU is 
too hairy and hard to maintain going forward...

    -mi