Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/gagolews/stringi/issues/334
Hi
I had a quick look at this. The FTBFS only occurs on big-endian
architectures, however on little-endian architectures r-cran=stringi is
now built against the bundled icu61.
checking programmatically for U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8==0... no
*** The available ICU4C cannot be used
Configure finds that U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 != 0 therefore tries to build
with the bundled icu61. However, there is no local copy of the
big-endian data, only src/icu61/data/icudt61l.zip is present, and the
build fails.
According to the upstream issue [1], ICU upstream defaults to building
with U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 on since version 61.
Regards
Graham
[1] https://github.com/gagolews/stringi/issues/314
