11-CURRENT iconv build failures

Thomas Mueller mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Fri Feb 21 07:08:15 UTC 2014


from CiPHER nl:

> I'm running FreeBSD 11-CURRENT r262235 (as of this morning) and building Virtualbox from ports (emulators/virtualbox-ose) fails for me.
> The Makefile contains USES=iconv. Removing that did not make it use the libiconv from ports instead of base iconv, as i had expected.
> Any pointers to how to get this fixed would be welcome. :)

I think you can put a line in /etc/src.conf
WITHOUT_ICONV=yes

and then build the ports version.  Would that help?  I might try that, but how to find which already-built ports depend on iconv?

Thomas Mueller



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