Bug#850976: firefox-esr: FTBFS: configure: error: cannot determine icu version number from uvernum.h header file

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: firefox-esr
Version: 45.6.0esr-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20170111 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for posix_fadvise... yes
> checking for posix_fallocate... yes
> sed: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
> configure: error: cannot determine icu version number from uvernum.h header file 
> ------ config.log ------
> /usr/bin/ld: total time in link: 0.020000
> /usr/bin/ld: data size 4583424
> configure:27972: checking for FT_Load_Sfnt_Table
> configure:28004: gcc -o conftest -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -I/usr/include/freetype2 -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -lpthread  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,text -Wl,--build-id conftest.c -ldl  -lfreetype 1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: total time in link: 0.020000
> /usr/bin/ld: data size 4583424
> configure:28042: checking for fontconfig/fcfreetype.h
> configure:28055: gcc -c -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/freetype2  conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:28145: checking for fontconfig
> configure:28152: checking _FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS
> configure:28157: checking _FONTCONFIG_LIBS
> configure:28346: checking for stdint.h
> configure:28359: gcc -c -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:28346: checking for inttypes.h
> configure:28359: gcc -c -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:29789: checking for posix_fadvise
> configure:29821: gcc -o conftest -Wall -Wempty-body -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wsign-compare -Wtype-limits -Wno-unused -Wcast-align -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -lpthread  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,text -Wl,--build-id conftest.c -ldl  1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: total time in link: 0.020000
> /usr/bin/ld: data size 4329472
> configure:29789: checking for posix_fallocate
> configure:29821: gcc -o conftest -Wall -Wempty-body -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wsign-compare -Wtype-limits -Wno-unused -Wcast-align -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -lpthread  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-z,text -Wl,--build-id conftest.c -ldl  1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: total time in link: 0.020000
> /usr/bin/ld: data size 4333568
> configure:29875: gcc -c -Wall -Wempty-body -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wsign-compare -Wtype-limits -Wno-unused -Wcast-align -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-schedule-insns2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -fno-strict-aliasing -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-math-errno -pthread -pipe  -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.c 1>&5
> configure: error: cannot determine icu version number from uvernum.h header file 
> debian/rules:223: recipe for target 'stamps/configure-browser' failed
> make[1]: *** [stamps/configure-browser] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> debian/rules:381: recipe for target 'build' failed

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/01/11/firefox-esr_45.6.0esr-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.