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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
       69.1

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

ICU MANPAGE                     6 February 2009                     PKGDATA(1)