On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:29:43AM +0100, dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> 
> > You did not mention that people using old ICU (e.g. 60) also had the
> > problem.
> Because I do not agree with that: For me, firefox-63 built just fine without
> patching with either its internal icu (ISTR despite system icu-63) or with
> system icu-62. The problem arose from system icu-63 starting to export (no
> idea whether on purpose) its "checkImpl" AND firefox including that.

I did not intend to describe either 62 or 61 as 'old ICU' in that
line.  When the issue was first raised, I built ff-63.0 with system
icu of both those versions without problems.

But I had previously failed to build on 60 with the same problem.
> 
> > Anyway, with 63.0.1 on BLFS-8.2 (ICU 60) that sed works.  It also
> > works on this-week's 64 beta on an 8.3 / 62 system where it is not
> > needed, so I think we should just pick it up.
> That was my intention: Without having to understand what either developers
> intend to do with their "checkImpl", I can avoid the name clash without side
> effects by renaming the Firefox internal one to e.g. "checkFFImpl".
> 
> > I'm now getting ready to build a fresh system (my first with ICU
> > 63). Will see how it goes,
> Good luck.
> 
Thanks.

ken
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