Re: D'Oh!

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 21 Jan 2015, at 08:27, Douglas Havir <rally@nbs-inc.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install GNUstep on my RHEL6.5 system, and I ran into a problem 
> with the ICU stuff.  Apparently RHEL6.5 has ICU libraries installed by 
> default, but, I'm running the x86_64 release, and the i686 libraries weren't 
> installed by default.  But that didn't dawn on me, as to why the install 
> script couldn't find ICU.  So I downloaded the x86_64 binaries from the ICU 
> site and installed them in /usr/local/[bin|lib] - the RHEL older libs are in 
> /usr/lib64 by the way.
> 
> Anyhow it borked on libicui18n.so.54 and I don't quite know what the deal is.

I have no idea if the binaries you downloaded are compatible with your 
operating system (and probably you have something wrong with your ICU 
installation) ...  I woudl suggest that you remove them and instead install the 
official RedHat packages (to build software you need the developer package, not 
just the runtime package) for ICU.
Alternatively, downloading the ICU source and building/installing it should 
work, but it's much more error-prone than using the standard operating system 
packages.

> Is GS fully 64-bit capable

Yes.

> 

No.

> If you have some time, I would appreciate a hint as to what I need to do in 
> order to get this installed.  It's probably some type of prerequisite 
> dependency that I've got messed up.

Well, I'm running a CentOS-6x64 system (same as RedHat) with no trouble, so I'm 
fairly sure the standard system packages are OK.