Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:55:16 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@mail.ru> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: libiconv hell Message-ID: <3CA01B54.4070502@mail.ru>
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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.
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