#8567: Specify the location of iconv for 'gd'
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Changes (by drkirkby):
* cc: kcrisman (added)
* owner: GeorgSWeber => drkirkby
Old description:
> Since iconv was added to Sage (#8432) as a standard package (needing due
> to someone updating R without checking it fully), there have been some
> problems on Fedora and !OpenSuse which look to be related to problems
> building gd when there are two copies of iconv to be found on the system.
> Since there is an option to specify the location of the iconv package in
> gd's configure script, this is probably worth doing, though it needs
> checking carefully.
>
> Dave
New description:
Since iconv was added to Sage (#8432) as a standard package (needed due to
Karl-Dieter Crisman updating R in #6532 whilst overlooking the warning
message from the configure script and without testing on Solaris), there
have been some problems on Fedora and !OpenSuse which look to be related
to problems building gd when there are two copies of iconv to be found on
the system. Since there is an option to specify the location of the iconv
package in gd's configure script, this is probably worth doing, though it
needs checking carefully.
Dave
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Comment:
If this gets too much of a mess, we could consider creating a ticket to
get the R package reverted to the older version. I've cc'ed Karl-Dieter
Crisman who updated R, whilst ignoring the warning from the configure
script and not testing on Solaris.
Hopefully iconv can be sorted out, but if it can't be done properly, then
reverting the R version is always an option, then iconv will not be
needed. We could change iconv's spkg-install to simply exit with an exit
code of 0. That would make it relatively easy to do, whilst leaving iconv
in Sage to allow it to be sorted out properly prior to updating R.
Dave
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8567#comment:14>
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