ICU update

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Riccardo,

> Am 20.02.2018 um 11:56 schrieb Riccardo Mottola via maintainers <maintainers at lists.opencsw.org>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> again, I answer myself :) this time I hope I have an easy question.
> 
> On 2018-02-16 11:59:48 +0100 Riccardo Mottola via maintainers <maintainers at lists.opencsw.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> to update gnustep-base I'd need an ICU update on Solaris 9: the one there gets detected, but is too old.
>> (I guess GNUstep could be better at version detecion, but that's another thing).
> 
>> I think I need at least v52
>> Did somebody already attempt this.. is it known impossible and/or something that will cause a total dependecy breakage?
> 
> Actually, I perhaps can get away with v50. Then I will have a one-shot attempt at fixing v52, I might have a trick.
> 
> v50 builds!
> However when I package, I get a problem because the test fails:
> 
> ALL TESTS SUMMARY:
> ok:  testdata iotest cintltst
> ===== ERRS:  intltest
> gmake[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmottola/opencsw/libicu50/trunk/work/solaris9-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8/icu/source/test'
> gmake: *** [check-recursive] Error 2
> gmake: Leaving directory `/home/rmottola/opencsw/libicu50/trunk/work/solaris9-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8/icu/source'
> 
> 
> am I understanding correctly ?
> 
> However, I see all tests pass except one:
>         TestEnumSet {
>         TODO!! This test doesn't fail on error. Convert printf into error assert.
> 
>         } OK:   TestEnumSet
> 
> 
> I would got and package anyway, may I skip tests for solaris9 only? how?

Sure.

# Wrong return code of test TestEnumSet on Solaris 9, skip testsuite for now
SKIPTEST-5.9 = 1
SKIPTEST ?= $(SKIPTEST-$(GAROSREL))

> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Riccardo
> 

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