bsd/citrus iconv

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 17 16:09:14 UTC 2012


on 17/02/2012 18:00 Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> Also, it is not really possible to avoid exposing it.
>> ... I am not sure why.  If we don't install any of its headers and install its
>> library as e.g. libbsdiconv.so, then it's perfectly usable by the
>> libraries/executables in the base system that were specifically compiled to use
>> this library and it's quite well hidden from the rest.
> 
> It's not a separate library - if you enable it, it's compiled into libc.

But nothing precludes it from being a separate library in principle?
There is even src/lib/libiconv, it's just not connected to the build.


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Andriy Gapon


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