#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 jsp):
Replying to [comment:24 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.
>
Opensolaris has it's own iconv included in glibc.
> on !OpenSolaris (aka Solaris 11). So just put an additional clause if
needed.
>
Yes we should put an extra test in
> The -r option to uname is POSIX, so we can rely on that. Don't use
'uname -p' since
>
Ok.
> * 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.
>
Let's go for the proposed option and leave alone the gd package for the
moment.
> Had R been properly tested, none of this would have been necessary.
>
You are repeating your self :-)!
My proposal is you update the iconv spkg and I and evt. others review it.
I think we can wait some more hours.
Jaap
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