[Mono-list] Configure with ICU?

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I've installed ICU as recommended by the README, but when I do a
> /configure for Mono (1.0.5) it still tells me that it can't find ICU.
> I notice that the prefix in which I installed ICU doesn't have a
> lib/pkgconfig like all the other dependencies I've installed so far.
> What directory would have what mono needs?  And what argument should I
> pass to the configure script (or what environment variable should I
> change) to reflect that?

We are actively looking for an ICU replacement for Mono.  

Our attempts to use ICU for string collation are far from perfect: the
semantics of the .NET framework differ from the ICU ones, and to make
things worse, we get a few things wrong anyways, so in Mono 1.1.xx we
have disabled ICU as the default.

In short, I would not worry too much about it.
Miguel.