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NAME

pkgdata - package data for use by ICU

SYNOPSIS

pkgdata [ -h, -?, --help ] [ -v, --verbose ] [ -c, --copyright | -C,
--comment comment ] [ -m, --mode mode ] -p, --name name -O, --bldopt
options [ -e, --entrypoint name ] [ -r, --revision version ] [ -F,
--rebuild ] [ -I, --install ] [ -s, --sourcedir source ] [ -d,
--destdir destination ] [ -T, --tempdir directory ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION

pkgdata takes a set of data files and packages them for use by ICU or
applications that use ICU. The typical reason to package files using
pkgdata is to make their distribution easier and their loading by ICU
faster and less consuming of limited system resources such as file
descriptors. Packaged data also allow applications to be distributed
with fewer resource files, or even with none at all if they link
against the packaged data directly.

pkgdata supports a few different methods of packaging data that serve
different purposes.

The default packaging mode is common, or archive. In this mode, the
different data files are bundled together as an architecture-
dependent file that can later be memory mapped for use by ICU. Data
packaged using this mode will be looked up under the ICU data
directory. Such packaging is easy to use for applications resource
bundles, for example, as long as the application can install the
packaged file in the ICU data directory.

Another packaging mode is the dll, or library, mode, where the data
files are compiled into a shared library. ICU used to be able to
dynamically load these shared libraries, but as of ICU 2.0, such
support has been removed. This mode is still useful for two main
purposes: to build ICU itself, as the ICU data is packaged as a
shared library by default; and to build resource bundles that are
linked to the application that uses them. Such resource bundles can
then be placed anywhere where the system's dynamic linker will be
looking for shared libraries, instead of being forced to live inside
the ICU data directory.

The static packaging mode is similar to the shared library one except
that it produces a static library.

Finally, pkgdata supports a files mode which simply copies the data
files instead of packaging them as a single file or library. This
mode is mainly intended to provide support for building ICU before it
is packaged as separate small packages for distribution with
operating systems such as Debian GNU/Linux for example. Please refer
to the packaging documentation in the ICU source distribution for
further information on the use of this mode.

pkgdata builds, packages, installs, or cleans the appropriate data
based on the options given without the need to call GNU make anymore.

OPTIONS

-h, -?, --help
Print help about usage and exit.

-v, --verbose
Display extra informative messages during execution.

-c, --copyright
Include a copyright notice in the binary data.

-C, --comment comment
Includes the specified comment in the resulting data instead
of the ICU copyright notice.

-m, --mode mode
Set the packaging mode to be used by pkgdata. The different
modes and their meaning are explained in the DESCRIPTION
section above. The valid mode names are common (or archive),
dll (or library), and files.

-O, --bldopt options
Specify options for the builder. The builder is used
internally by pkgdata to generate the correct packaged file.
Such options include, but are not limited to, setting
variables used by make(1) during the build of the packaged
file. Note: If icu-config is available, then this option is
not needed.

-p, --name name
Set the packaged file name to name. This name is also used as
the default entry point name after having been turned into a
valid C identifier.

-e, --entrypoint name
Set the data entry point (used for linking against the data in
a shared library form) to name. The default entry point name
is the name set by the -n, --name option.

-r, --revision version
Enable versioning of the shared library produced in dll, or
library, mode. The version number has the format
major.minor.patchlevel and all parts except for major are
optional. If only major is supplied then the version is
assumed to be major.0 for versioning purposes.

-F, --rebuild
Force the rebuilding of all data and their repackaging.

-I, --install
Install the packaged file (or all the files in the files
mode). If the variable DESTDIR is set it will be used for
installation.

-s, --sourcedir source
Set the source directory to source. The default source
directory is the current directory.

-d, --destdir destination
Set the destination directory to destination. The default
destination directory is the current directory.

-T, --tempdir directory
Set the directory used to generate temporary files to
directory. The default temporary directory is the same as the
destination directory as set by the -d, --destdir option.

AUTHORS

Steven Loomis
Yves Arrouye

VERSION

72.1

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 IBM, Inc. and others.


ICU MANPAGE 6 February 2009 PKGDATA(1)