ICU4C proposal: Rearranging intermediate location of tools and libraries

I would like to change the intermediate location of the ICU tools and 
libraries for Unix builds.  I would like the tools to appear in 
icu/source/bin, and the libraries and import libraries to appear in 
icu/source/lib.

Background Information:
We are trying to make the Microsoft Visual Studio work with the Unix 
Makefiles using CygWin.  These generated libraries and tools do not have a 
dependency on the CygWin environment.  ICU 2.8 partially works in this 
environment already, but you have to copy genccode and gencmn to the 
pkgdata directory for it to work right, which is the wrong way to do it. 
This change will fix the pkgdata dependency issue by putting all the tools 
into one directory, just like the Windows builds.

This change will help to test that the ICU libraries and tools do not have 
a burned in relative path for other ICU libraries.

This change will make it easier for frequent ICU debuggers to specify one 
directory for LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of multiple directories.  An include 
directory won't be created by this proposal, you will continue to use 
"gmake install" to get that directory.

I picked icu/source/bin because that is where configure lives.  Out of 
source builds will break if we put the binaries up one directory (in the 
icu directory), and we can't move configure because that will break a lot 
of other people's current build systems that use ICU.

If you use, "gmake install" to get the binaries and tools, you will not be 
affected by this change.

Deadline for comments: March 22, 2004

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San José, CA, USA
ICU main website: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html