Installing ICU ports on freebsd 11.0

[Bernt Hansson]

On 09/12/17 09:44, Edwin Ancaer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed GNUstep on Freebsd 11.0, and I seem to be having a problem with
> the localization methods  for
> Dates and Times in GNUstep. While everything seems to be OK when calling
> these methods, the results are wrong.
> As a possible cause, a problem in my ICU-installation was mentioned.
> Apparently, the library  /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.58.2 should be
> several megabytes, while I find it is only 1.1K.
>
> I tried to reinstall the ICU port, with the commands
>      - sudo make deinstall
>      - sudo make clean
>      - suddo make install
>
> Again, everything seems to be working, no errors while installing, but the
> library in question remains 1.1K.
>
> Is there anyone with experience in installing ICU on FreeBSD, that can
> confirm that the size of /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.58.2 on my system is
> problematic, and if so, can tell me how to install a correct library?
>
>
My libicudata.58.2 is 1704 bytes. But I'm not a gnustep user so can't really
tell what's wrong. Here is my /usr/local/lib directory with libicu* so 
you can compare.


-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     1300 Aug 15 22:58 libicudata.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicudata.so -> 
libicudata.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicudata.so.58 -> 
libicudata.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     1704 Aug 15 22:58 libicudata.so.58.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5528934 Aug 15 22:58 libicui18n.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicui18n.so -> 
libicui18n.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicui18n.so.58 -> 
libicui18n.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2735560 Aug 15 22:58 libicui18n.so.58.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    85818 Aug 15 22:58 libicuio.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicuio.so -> 
libicuio.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicuio.so.58 -> 
libicuio.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    54544 Aug 15 22:58 libicuio.so.58.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   100550 Aug 15 22:58 libicutest.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicutest.so -> 
libicutest.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       18 Aug 15 22:58 libicutest.so.58 -> 
libicutest.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    65376 Aug 15 22:58 libicutest.so.58.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   334014 Aug 15 22:58 libicutu.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicutu.so -> 
libicutu.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicutu.so.58 -> 
libicutu.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   189424 Aug 15 22:58 libicutu.so.58.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3009664 Aug 15 22:58 libicuuc.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicuuc.so -> 
libicuuc.so.58.2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       16 Aug 15 22:58 libicuuc.so.58 -> 
libicuuc.so.58.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1776608 Aug 15 22:58 libicuuc.so.58.2