[Firebird-devel] Fwd: [pkg-firebird-general] Bug#879972: firebird3.0: FTBFS with icu59, simple workaround/patch attached

[marius a. p. <ma...@gm...>]

Firebird 3.0 icu59 ubuntu related patch

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From: Adam Conrad <adc...@de...>
Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:03 PM
Subject: [pkg-firebird-general] Bug#879972: firebird3.0: FTBFS with icu59,
simple workaround/patch attached
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <su...@bu...>


Package: firebird3.0
Version: 3.0.2.32703.ds4-11
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: ubu...@li...
Usertags: origin-ubuntu bionic ubuntu-patch



In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

  * Define UCHAR_TYPE=uint16_t to avoid C++11 and fix FTBFS with icu59.

So, here's what's happening.  In icu59, UChar is defined as char16_t if
you're compiling a C++ project (ie: ifdef __cplusplus), but char16_t is
a C++11 type.  One could argue this is an ICU bug for forcing rdeps to
conform to a newer C++ standard (and one could even win that argument,
I imagine), but I figured working around it in firebird was the path of
least resistance.

My first attempt was to change the firebird build from std=gnu++98 to
std=gnu++11.  Don't do that.  I mean, try if you want, but it does not
end well.

This patch just tells icu to use the same type for UChar that it used to
and it seems to do the trick here.  So, enjoy.

... Adam


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