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PKGDATA(1)                      ICU 67.1 Manual                     PKGDATA(1)

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,  --dest-
       dir 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  de-
       scriptors.   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  us-
       ing  this  mode  will  be  looked up under the ICU data directory. Such
       packaging is easy to use for applications resource bundles,  for  exam-
       ple,  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 dynam-
       ically 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 pack-
       aging documentation in the ICU source distribution for further informa-
       tion 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 li-
              brary), 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-con-
              fig 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  li-
              brary,  mode.  The  version  number  has  the  format  major.mi-
              nor.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 direc-
              tory is the current directory.

       -d, --destdir destination
              Set the destination directory to destination.  The default  des-
              tination 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
       67.1

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

ICU MANPAGE                     6 February 2009                     PKGDATA(1)

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