On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:10:40PM -0500, Marty Jack via blfs-dev wrote:
> 
> 
> The fix is simple: replace TRUE by true and FALSE by false wherever it is 
> needed.
> The requirement is pervasive.  I have 3 packages that needed changes.  The 
> qtwebengine touches a lot of files.
> The one I had to give up on is libreoffice because there were changes needed 
> in the external tarballs.
> I went with --without-system-icu for that and expect it to be needed for a 
> long time until everyone catches up.
> I really wish upstreams would consider the amount of work they cause for 
> everyone.
> There is one in particular that has made numerous incremental API changes and 
> does not seem to understand the reason why an soname needs to be bumped.
> I can provide the patch files on request, but be warned they aren't done in a 
> way that preserves building with older versions of ICU.

Thanks.  I'm double-plus not looking forward to this if it hits
anything written in rust.  Grumpy about libreoffice (if I get that
far), but as this is an experimental build I might put up with that
in the short term.

Totally agree with your comments.

ĸen
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