On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:55:01PM -0600, DJ Lucas wrote:
> >
> > > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 06:56:08PM +0100, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > OK, I think I found the culprit: went back to ICU-57.1, compiled FF
> > > against it, and no segfaults for about one hour...
> > >
> > > I'll try to find where the ICU API changed.
> > > Pierre
> >
> > All over the place, 58 has not been pretty for many packages.
> > This might be a good start:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1299615
> >
> > --DJ
> >
> For the overall changes,
> http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/tags/release-58-
> 1/APIChangeReport.html
>
> But like DJ says, it ain't pretty. The page linking to that,
> http://site.icu-project.org/download/58#TOC-Common-Changes
> summariese these as
>
> API Changes since ICU4C 57
>
> ·   The API change report looks large and noisy this time. Most of
>     the changes are from the following:
>     · The layout engine code was removed, resulting in a long list
>       of Removed API.
>     · C++ APIs that used const StringPiece& now pass/return
>       StringPiece by value. All affected functions show as being
>       Removed with their old signature and as Added with their new
>       signature. (#12140)
>     · Most COUNT and LIMIT enum constants have been deprecated. (#12420)
>
> ĸen
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I'm rebuilding Firefox, Seamonkey, and Thunderbird with ICU-57.1 as we
speak. Probably about 6 hours until I have any news.

If this fixes it, do we need to revert to 57.1?
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