ports/175935: x11-clocks/xclock links to iconv

[Eitan Adler]

The following reply was made to PR ports/175935; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
To: John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com>
Cc: x11 at freebsd.org, bug-followup <bug-followup at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/175935: x11-clocks/xclock links to iconv
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:38:57 -0500

 On 7 February 2013 14:30, John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR ports/175935; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com>
 > To: <pawel at FreeBSD.org>
 > Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
 > Subject: Re: ports/175935: x11-clocks/xclock links to iconv
 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:27:11 -0700
 >
 >  xclock will use iconv if it's there, but it's optional.
 
 Many ports do this.  This is entirely a bug.  Imagine building on a
 different machine than one will be running.
 
 >  From xclock's configure on a system without iconv...
 
 The correct fix is to explicitly disable iconv, explicitly enable it,
 or make it an OPTION.
 
 As is though, is buggy.
 
 
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 Eitan Adler