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

[Ken Brown]

On 6/15/2009 1:36 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Ken Brown wrote:
> 
>> I think the failure occurs during the xetex build, not during the 
>> build of the icu libraries.  I know there are details about this in 
>> the tlbuild and/or texlive archives, but I don't have time to search 
>> right this minute.  The one I was able to quickly locate is
>>
>>  http://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2008q3/000353.html
>>
>> Maybe Angelo can give you a better reference.  If not, I'll search 
>> some more in a few hours.
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> sorry, my mistake. But then the question what happens when building the
> Cygwin port of ICU is quite irrelevant.

True.  When Jonathan asked the question, I had forgotten that the 
failure occurred during the xetex build.

> Fiddling around with the -I's might be a way out, however, at best a very
> fragile one.  There is just no safe way to distinguish features.h and
> Features.h on a case insensitive (Windows or Mac) filesystem.

So we have to hope that the ICU people accept the patch.

Regards,

Ken