[sword-devel] ICU 61.1

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 16:07 Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Yeah, I saw a few messages on sword-support about it too.
>
> We have some convoluted logic in there to include different headers
> depending on if it ICU is really old or only kindof old.  We probably just
> need to update that logic for 61.1.  Any idea when it might roll out to a
> Fedora release? F28 if its in Rawhide?
>
Once we have a patch I can just rebuild. Current Rawhide is getting ready
for the Fedora 29 branch. 28 either just released or is coming out any day
now.

Based on the crossing stream message on this same thread, it looks like
autotools and CMake can be updated to detect this and add the necessary
preprocessor macro by doing a version compare.

--Greg

> Troy
>
> On 04/30/2018 12:54 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
> There have been several people reporting that SWORD is not compatible with
> ICU4C 61.1 as it's begun to make its way into various distribution
> repositories. Fedora Rawhide (continuous rolling "broken" release) has just
> taken that plunge today and now I'm getting the same build failures.
>
> Troy - have you put any effort into a patch for this? Is shipping with ICU
> enabled for SWORD worth the effort or can I disable that? I haven't had a
> chance to look under the covers and see what the code really is that's
> going on, so I don't know how easy or hard it will be to work up a patch.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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