[Mono-list] Globalization: ICU, unsupported. Version: 3.2 question

[Aleksandar Dezelin]

Ok. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Aleksandar Dezelin

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:42:45 +0100, Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com> wrote:
> On 02/22/05 Aleksandar Dezelin wrote:
> > What does exactly mean 'unsupported' reported by the configure script:
> >
> >  mcs source:  $(top_srcdir)/mcs
> >         GC:          boehm
> >         Globalization:     ICU, unsupported. Version: 3.2
> 
> It means that you should not enable that option if you don't know
> what it is. ICU is a buggy i18n library that we used to use to
> provide some globalization functionality. You should not
> enable that option: unsupported means that you'll find issues
> with it and we won't fix those issues. We provide most
> of the needed functionality without using ICU.
> 
> People should use the default configure options.
> 
> >         TLS:         __thread
> >         SIGALTSTACK: no
> >         Engine:      Building and using the JIT
> >         2.0 Alpha:   no
> >         JNI support: IKVM Native
> >
> > Another simple question:
> >
> > There are two options for parameter '--with-gc='  : boehm and included.
> > Which one is better?
> 
> The default is the best choice, it's done on purpouse, so you don't
> have to supply options. For example your choice of using
> --with-gc=boehm is bad, because we provide several fixes in the included
> GC that are not yet integrated in the upstream libgc.
> 
> People should use the default configure options, and not choose a different
> option without knowing what it does.
> 
> lupus
> 
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