Bug#850972: firefox: FTBFS: configure: error: cannot determine icu version number from uvernum.h header file

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Mike!

On 01/12/2017 01:30 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> It's more subtle than that. Also, firefox and icedove already do an
> autoreconf on their own.
> 
> icu.m4 is autoconf m4, iow, m4 with [ and ] as quote characters. Which
> means the [[ and ]] in that expression are replaced with literal [ ] in
> the resulting configure script. Funnily, it doesn't happen for the [ and
> ] after the #, so in the resulting configure script, the sed command
> contains [:space:]*#[[:space:]]*etc.
> 
> sed < 4.3 was happy to take [:space:], but sed 4.3 isn't anymore.

Thanks a lot for the explanation! Appreciated.

> This should be fixed in next upstream release, in less than two weeks.

What about Icedove? Should we cherry-pick the patch in this case?

Adrian

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