maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 198658] devel/boost-libs: libboost_locale.so fails to link libiconv if installed

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Bug 198658: devel/boost-libs: libboost_locale.so fails to link libiconv if
installed
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198658



--- Description ---
I noticed the problem when aegisub-3.2.2 failed to link. Some investigation
showed that /usr/local/lib/libboost_locale.so (from boost-libs-1.55.0_4) has
unresolved references to libiconv{,_open,_close}

Further investigation shows that the configure part of boost-libs finds iconv
in libc, but when compiling codepage.cpp, it picks up libiconv-1.14_6 (when
installed of course).

One solution to this problem is to change the configure part of boost-libs to
first probe for external iconv libraries and then for internal ones.