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f3c0d7a5 1Copyright (C) 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
4388f060 2Copyright (c) 2002-2011, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
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3The genren.pl script is used to generate source/common/unicode/urename.h header file, which is needed for renaming the ICU exported names.
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5This script is intended to be used on Linux, although it should work on any platform that has Perl and nm command. Makefile may need to be updated, it's not 100% portable.
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7It also does not currently work well in an out-of-source situation.
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9The following instructions are for Linux version.
10- urename.h file should be generated after implementation is complete for a release.
729e4ab9 11- the version number for a release should be set according to the list in source/common/unicode/uvernum.h
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12- In this [genren] directory, run
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14 "make install-header"
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16- urename.h will be updated in icu/source/common/unicode/urename.h **in your original source directory**
4388f060 17- Eyeball the new file for errors
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19- Other make targets here
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21 clean - cleans out intermediate files
22 urename.h -just builds ./urename.h