[tlbuild] Failure in building TL2009 on Cygwin (ICU)

[Jonathan Kew]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ken Brown <kbrow1i at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/7/2009 10:36 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
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>> Regarding the naming of ICU's Features.h, and the conflict with gcc's features.h under Cygwin, have you reported this to the ICU project?
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> Not yet, but I will.  Is there a particular contact person I should report it to?  Or should I just send it to their mailing list?

There's an ICU bug tracker <http://icu-project.org/trac> where you can
file a report, that's what I do with issues I run into.

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>> Whenever we import a new ICU release, the problem is liable to return unless it is fixed in the upstream sources -- or you find a way to resolve it through appropriate setting of #include paths during the build. (What does the cygwin port of ICU do?)
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> The cygwin port of ICU doesn't do anything about this, and there's no problem.  I'm not sure what happens during the texlive build that's different, but it won't matter if the ICU people accept the change.

This makes me suspect that it should be possible to solve this within
the TL build setup.... in which case you may find they'll be reluctant
to accept a change, on the grounds that it's not really an ICU
problem. But I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask.

JK