Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:42:21 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Robert_Burmeister <robert.burmeister@utoledo.edu> Cc: "freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tnvMeBeAWD%2BnK3ScbWb%2Bxap0peUSUiREBwSQttcZjkZA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1392658042024-5886734.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <53012DEB.9020208@UToledo.edu> <CAN6yY1ttGAovcJwA3udUU0X8v-WYWR-vj_k8Y2_tJXAivOTcGw@mail.gmail.com> <1392658042024-5886734.post@n5.nabble.com>
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Robert_Burmeister < robert.burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote: > Kevin Oberman-4 wrote > >> Was the 16 Feb 2014 change to glib20 2.36.3_2 to now require > >> converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10 deliberate? > >> > > "Add back depend on libiconv. This is needed because our base iconv > > doesn't > > do utf-8 -> wchar_t apparently. [2] wchar_t is used by glibmm." > > > > So it was clearly deliberate. I am a bit surprised as I have had no > issues > > with glib20 and no iconv. I also have glibmm and no iconv. But I use > > en.US.UTF-8, so I may not hit the relevant code path. But I was certainly > > able to build both without having iconv installed from ports. > > I have not had any problems either with glib20 nor glibmm without libiconv > installed. > > It would make sense that problems only show up when using double wide > encodings. > > Perhaps whether to use base iconv or converters/libiconv should have a > configuration option. > > Converting my whole system back to libiconv is no small task. > ATM, the only ports I am aware of that require the port that triggers this issue is rawtharapee. If you can live without it, there appears no issue with not installing the port. Just edit the glib20/Makefile to remove the " iconv:wchar_t" from the USES. I'm not sure of the potential issues, but an option to use libiconv for rawtherapee seems like a reasonable idea. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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