Hi,
I noted two more things connected to ICU building on different platforms.
One thing is that the ICU build process is quite keen on using "gmake" for
building, even localizing it and saying something like
"You must use /usr/local/bin/gmake to build ICU".
On OpenBSD, where I just used "make" as on any other platform, this broke
because the makefiles didn't work correctly.
Another thing, which is not really bad but I run into at the moment is that on
the system where I run my Cygwin tests the homedir actually is named
"/home/Gerd & Jutta", which are the names of my father and his girlfriend who
own the machine and is a perfectly valid Windows username. Everything worked
fine till now, but the ICU scripts seem not to cope with whitespaces and "&"
very good, leading to the problem that the mkinstalldirs chomps off
everything after the first whitespace and leading to a failing installation.
Have fun,
Marcus
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