On Donnerstag, 23. März 2017 11:21:37 CEST Darshit Shah wrote:
> There are two points here, we should keep the mandatory dependencies at
> a bare minimum. That is one of the features that made Wget 1.x more
> popular with the embedded crowd. If someone does not care about
> non-ascii domain names, it should be possible to build Wget2 without
> IDNA.
> 
> However, when building with IDNA, we may make IDNA 2008 (libidn2) the
> minimum requirement. For this, the important thing to look at is which
> platforms / systems will suffer. Far as I am aware, most distros and
> platforms have libidn2 available as a package, but if there are systems
> where this is not the case, we should evaluate whether we would like to
> drop full compatibility for such systems.
> 
> Anyways, this boils down to:
> 
> 1. IDNA is not a hard build dependency. Hence, we should detect for its
>    absence and ignore running tests that depend on it.

Just made a commit to address this issue.

Regards, Tim

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