ICU/bugs and patches

List of patches applied to OOo's ICU module (currently ICU v4.0) and bugs and patches submitted to ICU trac, the ICU bug tracking system.

If you really have to apply a patch to ICU to make things work, please submit that patch to ICU trac, so the next version of ICU will include the changes, and list your patch with ICU trac ID here. We strive for being able to build against an unpatched ICU, so that configure --with-system-icu will be possible without loosing functionality.

add RPATH for URE

The patch changes RPATH from $ORIGIN to $ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/../ure-link/lib because libicu*.so are linked against libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 that are distributed with the new layered UNO Runtime Environment (URE). This to ensure that the libraries are found there in case they are not already loaded.

However, one could argue that the libraries are already loaded when ICU is pulled in, which almost certainly is the case for libstdc++, and probably also for the libgcc_s GCC support library, but that for some machine models may contain some rarely used symbols such that it wasn't loaded but ICU needs it. This is very unlikely though, but you never know..

Anyway, the patch certainly is nothing to upstream, hence no ICU trac ID.

We'll keep thinking about another solution.

OOo developer: Stephan Bergmann <sb>