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authorRoderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com>2014-02-17 16:17:11 -0500
committerRoderick W. Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com>2014-02-17 16:17:11 -0500
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Removed libicu dependency for UTF-16 partition names. Version 0.8.9
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@@ -174,17 +174,17 @@ be used instead. In addition, note these requirements:
FreeBSD, the e2fsprogs-libuuid port must be installed.
* The ICU library (http://site.icu-project.org), which provides support for
- Unicode partition names, is recommended on all
- platforms except Windows. This library is normally installed in Linux and
- OS X, but you may need to install the development headers (libicu-dev or
- something similar in Linux; or the libicu36-dev Fink package in OS X). To
- compile without ICU support, you must modify the Makefile: Remove the
- "-D USE_UTF16" part from the CXXFLAGS line and remove references to
- -licuio, -licuuc, -licudata, and -licucore (details vary between
- platforms) from the compilation options. Suitable lines are present, but
- commented out, in the Makefile, Makefile.solaris, Makefile.freebsd files.
- Because of problems with ICU under OS X, the Makefile.mac file doesn't
- build against ICU by default.
+ Unicode partition names, is optional on all platforms except Windows, on
+ which it's not supported. Using this library was required to get proper
+ UTF-16 partition name support in GPT fdisk versions prior to 0.8.9, but
+ as of that version it should not longer be required. Nonetheless, you can
+ use it if you're having problems with the new UTF-16 support. This
+ library is normally installed in Linux and OS X, but you may need to
+ install the development headers (libicu-dev or something similar in
+ Linux; or the libicu36-dev Fink package in OS X). To compile with ICU
+ support, you must modify the Makefile: Look for commented-out lines that
+ refer to USE_UTF16, -licuuc, -licudata, or -licucore. Uncomment them and
+ comment out the equivalents that lack these lines.
* The cgdisk program requires the ncurses library and its development files
(headers). Most Linux distributions install ncurses by default, but you