On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Robert_Burmeister < robert.burmeis...@utoledo.edu> wrote:
> While base iconv replaces libiconv in FreeBSD 10, > base iconv doesn't do utf-8 -> wchar_t, > which is required by glib20, thus impacts thousands of ports. > > An entry in the FreeBSD 10 Errata stating that iconv is now in the base > system, > however, that it does not include all the functionality of libiconv from > ports, > would help make port maintainers aware of iconv issues. > Support for wchar_t is only one of the differences. The base iconv is fully posix compliant, but the port (GNU) library has several extra capabilities including wchat_t. Since the base iconv is in the kernel, not a shared library, it is not clear (to me) that that it is necessary to re-build ports that depend on ports that need libiconv. E.g. It does not appear that building glib20 with libiconv forces a rebuild of glibmm even though the wchar_t calls are triggered by rawtherapee to glibmm which actually makes the call to glib that tries to do the wchar_t operation. This is very different from a libtrary that had been in ports being moved to base such as openssl. This does force lots of rebuilds to prevent library version collisions that will cause load failures. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
