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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:31:04 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1ttGAovcJwA3udUU0X8v-WYWR-vj_k8Y2_tJXAivOTcGw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <53012DEB.9020208@UToledo.edu>
References:  <53012DEB.9020208@UToledo.edu>

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Robert Burmeister <
Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote:

> Was the 16 Feb 2014 change to glib20 2.36.3_2 to now require
> converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10 deliberate?
>
> Koop's commit message included:
"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.

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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