AFFECTS: 10-CURRENT users with any port depending on converters/libiconv

Guido Falsi madpilot at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 7 12:27:52 UTC 2013


On 09/07/13 14:10, olli hauer wrote:
> There are 13 ports using --with-iconv=${LOCALBASE}
>   devel/apr1
>   devel/apr2
>   devel/git
>   irc/epic5
>   lang/gauche
>   net-mgmt/ettercap
>   net/ssltunnel-client
>   net/yaz
>   net/zebra-server
>   textproc/libxml2
>   textproc/py-libxml2
>   www/apache22
>   www/apache24
>

Most of these do work anyway. I'm sure about various of these. I have 
them working on my PCs. This does not mean they don't need to be tweaked 
anyway, but they have lower priority.

net-mgmt/ettercap is known broken and I have it in my pipe. I'm giving 
this all the time I can, but I can''t spend too much time on this right 
now. I'm going to check these and fix the broken ones asap.


>
> and devel/glib20, print/ghostscript8, print/ghostscript9 using
>   --with-libiconv=gnu
>   --with-libiconv=native
>   --with-libiconv=no
>   --with-libiconv=no
>

glib20 I already fixed in the big commit. uses native or gnu where 
appropriate. I'll also have a look at the ghostscript ports asap, but at 
least ghostscript9 I have seen it working on my PCs.

>
> Unfortunately Uses/iconv.mk defines only --with-libiconv(-prefix).
>
> If Uses/iconv.mk can be extended with something like ICON_PATH, then
> the 13 ports can be changed quickly to use the right iconv.
>

Most of those will use the right iconv anyway if only one is found. 
Extending iconv.mk should be discussed with portmgr, adding a variable 
shouldn't be a problem though.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>


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