#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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Comment(by drkirkby):
Jaap,
I don't have time to test it now (really am tied up), but if you can test
on !OpenSolaris, then make a decision whether iconv needs installing or
not.
{{{
drkir...@kestrel:~$ uname -r
5.10
}}}
on Solaris 10, and
{{{
drkir...@hawk:~$ uname -r
5.11
}}}
on !OpenSolaris (aka Solaris 11). So just put an additional clause if
needed.
The -r option to uname is POSIX, so we can rely on that. Don't use 'uname
-p' since
* The i386 processor is used on Solaris 10 too.
* -p is not a POSIX option to uname, so can cause hassles on other
systems.
Also worth checking, in preference to this are whether the version of 'gd'
in Sage is old and furthermore the 'gd' developers have fixed the bug that
prevents '--with-libiconv-prefix' working properly. If so, consider
updating gd.
Had R been properly tested, none of this would have been necessary.
When I wrote the iconv package, it clears out debris, like libraries and
binaries, so there should be no need to do that again - just make sure the
cleaning up is done before exiting.
Since Jaap and I are looking to port Sage to !OpenSolaris, we are not keen
to introduce more problems for the future. Let's sort it out now.
Dave
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