ports/65887: mutt and mutt-devel can silently depend on libiconv

[Yar Tikhiy]

The following reply was made to PR ports/65887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Udo Schweigert <Udo.Schweigert at siemens.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/65887: mutt and mutt-devel can silently depend on libiconv
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:49:19 +0400

 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote:
 > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 17:32:57 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > >>Fix:
 > > 	An easy way is to add ``USE_ICONV=yes'' to the mutt Makefiles.
 > > 	A harder approach is to implement conditional dependencies
 > > 	within the ports framework, that is to let ports tell,
 > > 	"I could use the port foo if it were installed already;
 > > 	never mind otherwise."
 > 
 > One could also choose to use the --disable-iconv option of mutt's configure.
 
 By itself it's more to amputation than to a solution :-)
 Mutt's using libiconv is a valuable feature for users whose native
 alphabet falls beyond Latin-1.  And specifying --disable-iconv would
 inhibit mutt from using libiconv even if it is installed.  Perhaps
 having a WITH_ICONV knob for mutt would be better.  The knob function
 can be as follows:
 
 	on  - set USE_ICONV=yes
 	off - set --disable-iconv
 
 -- 
 Yar