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

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:35:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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?

Icedove uses Firefox code base upstream, so it will end up there
mechanically.

Mike