Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
If libiconv in base for FreeBSD = 10.0 was supposed to replace the version in ports but had a deficiency, is there any plan to port the ports version to base for FreeBSD 10-stable or 11-head? Tom ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-22 Thread Andrey Chernov
On 22.03.2014 9:06, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Andrey Chernov a...@freebsd.org mailto:a...@freebsd.org wrote: On 21.03.2014 20 tel:21.03.2014%2020:15, Kevin Oberman wrote: The FreeBSD iconv support is fully posix compliant Not so fully. Translation

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-21 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
For me, I built libc WITHOUT iconv by setting WITHOUT_ICONV=yes in /etc/src.conf than... make buildworld;make installworld. and than rebuild all packages that depends on it (about 200) now all the packages, ports are all working again I will wait for FreeBSD11, that perhaps have a full

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-21 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
Am Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:07:05 -0400 schrieb Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu: In short, if you installed 10.0-RELEASE, don't pay any attention to libiconv unless you are having specific problems. Do not try to fight ports from using libiconv from ports, they are using that version for a

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.comwrote: Dr. Peter Voigt schreef: I am running a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE since its publication at the end of January this year. I have installed many ports since then and all dependencies are OK. Yesterday I

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-21 Thread Andrey Chernov
On 21.03.2014 20:15, Kevin Oberman wrote: The FreeBSD iconv support is fully posix compliant Not so fully. Translation to ASCII is completely broken. Toggling POSIX translate flag is impossible (always on). -- http://ache.vniz.net/ ___

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-21 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Andrey Chernov a...@freebsd.org wrote: On 21.03.2014 20:15, Kevin Oberman wrote: The FreeBSD iconv support is fully posix compliant Not so fully. Translation to ASCII is completely broken. Toggling POSIX translate flag is impossible (always on). My error.

Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-20 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
I am running a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE since its publication at the end of January this year. I have installed many ports since then and all dependencies are OK. Yesterday I have stumbled across several posts in the forum making me aware of a major change in handling port

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-20 Thread Johan Hendriks
Dr. Peter Voigt schreef: I am running a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE since its publication at the end of January this year. I have installed many ports since then and all dependencies are OK. Yesterday I have stumbled across several posts in the forum making me aware of a major change in

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-20 Thread Robert Huff
Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com writes: As far as I know, there is some libiconv functionality missing in the base libiconv implementation. That is the reason some ports installed converters/libiconv from ports. From reading the mailing lists and skimming the PRs, it appears

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-20 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
Am Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:20:43 -0400 schrieb Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com writes: As far as I know, there is some libiconv functionality missing in the base libiconv implementation. That is the reason some ports installed converters/libiconv from

Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE

2014-03-20 Thread Adam McDougall
On 03/20/2014 14:54, Dr. Peter Voigt wrote: Thanks on feedback to all. Meanwhile I've read a lot about iconv and to be honest, things are becoming even less clear. I am having not enough experience with FreeBSD to completely judge the situation. But obviously replacement of the ports