[tlbuild] ICU build error on FreeBSD 11.1

[Johannes Hielscher]

Am Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:17:55 +0100
schrieb Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:

> On 22 March 2018 at 10:29, Johannes Hielscher wrote:
> > Am Sun, 18 Mar 2018 19:08:28 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec :
> >  
> >> Would you be willing to test 11.1 in case you have access to it?
> >> I'm curious if it's just me doing something wrong on the machine
> >> or if there's in fact a problem that could be solved without too
> >> much hassle.  
> > I ran a build run for amd64-freebsd on FreeBSD 11.1 (svn -r47054,
> > with gmake and clang 4.0.0). ICU builds without issues here.  
> 
> Now that's confusing / strange. Our machines are running
> 
> FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p1 (both i386 and amd64)

$ uname -a
FreeBSD $HOSTNAME 11.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Aug  9
11:55:48 UTC 2017
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

> 
> $ cc --version
> FreeBSD clang version 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final 297347) (based on
> LLVM 4.0.0)
> Target: i386-unknown-freebsd11.1
> Thread model: posix
> InstalledDir: /usr/bin
FreeBSD clang version 4.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_400/final 297347) (based on
LLVM 4.0.0) Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd11.1
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

Except for the 32-bit target, this looks bit-wise identical.

> 
> I'll try to investigate what could go wrong or if I can reproduce a
> successful build on a clean VM.
> 
> I wonder if ICU is having some strange interaction with the
> environment or installed libraries or whatever. It's well known for
> not respecting all the build flags at least.

I don't know if it plays a role, but I exported MAKE=gmake and ran
./Build with --without-x --disable-xindy --disable-xetex as I didn't
want to dive into fixing all the clisp, fontconfig, and X11 library
dependencies.
I did no testing myself, but the icu test from the testsuite succeeded.

$ gmake --version
GNU Make 4.2.1
Built for amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0
Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> 
> Thanks a lot for the feedback,
>     Mojca