[bug #40671] Cant build gui on system with alternative ICU package

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #40671 (project gnustep):

I'm not sure how to class the current state of things.

As far as I could tell, I was building gnustep-base and gnustep-gui the same
way, and I did not manage to figure out why gnustep-gui was using a different
version of ICU from gnustep-base.
 
What I did in gnustep-base was expose the flags used to incorporate ICU in the
base.make  makefile fragment, so that anything built by gnustep-make will get
those same flags.

That means, when we come to building gnustep-gui, we get the flags used to
build base, irrespective of what gnustep-gui's configure found for ICU
(basically we ignore gnustep-gui's ICU configure results).

One the one had, I think it's the right thing to do to try to ensure that
anything building with base also builds/links the same versions of libraries
that base uses.  On the other hand, it seems wrong to be ignoring the results
of gui's configure script.

Anyway, this worked for me iin that it allowed me to build gui again … so
you could say this issue is fixed.

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