From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 25 22:55:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.jp.viruscheck.net (smtp3.jp.viruscheck.net [154.33.69.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7D637B416 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:55:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [154.33.69.37] (helo=mail1.jp.viruscheck.net) by smtp3.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16pkrY-0004PY-00 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:55:20 +0900 Received: from [218.47.36.51] (helo=noc.orchid) by mail1.jp.viruscheck.net with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16pkrW-000KNL-00 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:55:18 +0900 Received: from mail.ru (horse.orchid [89.60.10.11]) by noc.orchid (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g2Q6tG410084 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:55:17 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3CA01B54.4070502@mail.ru> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:55:16 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: libiconv hell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Everyone, I have a question. Why BSD licensed iconv library was recently dropped in favour of GNU one? I wonder if there is any difference between these three call library interfaces at all. May be it's good idea to let both libraries (libiconv and iconv) to results into the same iconv.h and libiconv.so files and fix the shared library major version number for both implementations till the UnixXX iconv specs do not introduce some significant changes. This enables portmaintainers to specify the level of UnixXX spec capability required by package and user in turn the implementation of his/her choice (e.g. via /etc/make.conf). I believe there is no sence to have both libraries installed. LIB_DEPENDS=iconv.3:${PORTSDIR}/converters/${LIBICONV} Thanks, -- Alexander. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message