From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:17:49 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADF3C2D7; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x236.google.com (mail-ie0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AE11A3F; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id ar1so37965461iec.13; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:17:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XPHr6RAtlLs9Umt7PYzwZrYDXg3YD36Cseq0hxYjcQw=; b=Oc+b+shqxxYbTsJ19RjHPbVTSP06dgprlWWJla8WSMr1lqzZ3SUYSRdlHnjOJfiihc Lv24bAegWDd/NkjEKGp39ROze+rLGU65MCSfffYTS+8KAhOUhGyIPHzHSb992YIpCFZ2 HA8H477BqqdElQry5Kq6IOtG5AccERPhdynN7r5O7IkFgddGKB8AglmJy5kyvsbz2Cp0 WTiTyqciMQH280eDpKPlBIpiMsxyLDi5KQ5Xl6jmCSnfs4PrEU3lHyXoCxyq4NBFTIV+ gdMVVUfdL9CB2oHcX6GuSzR8ipqudspCx6FehfCMBCP/DioVP8GMevqVCPBrgG2vuORN N4gA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.66.131 with SMTP id f3mr2151532igt.7.1422559068780; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.182.233 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:17:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54CA5E6D.2060501@freebsd.org> References: <54C8C0B6.6030306@erdgeist.org> <54C8D52C.4010005@madpilot.net> <54C8E22E.8040207@erdgeist.org> <54C8ECC6.2000303@madpilot.net> <54C8FA01.7010904@madpilot.net> <54C8FA4E.9020607@erdgeist.org> <54CA5E6D.2060501@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:17:48 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: libbconv From: NGie Cooper To: Julian Elischer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Dirk Engling , Guido Falsi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:17:49 -0000 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 1/28/15 11:03 PM, Dirk Engling wrote: >> >> On 28.01.15 16:02, Guido Falsi wrote: >> >>> Please try to reinstall the converters/libiconv port, which is what your >>> other ports are looking for. >> >> Thank you, sir :) > > > of course you couId, I believe, just use libc which now contains a lot of > iconv stuff.. > at least it appears that way to me.. iconv in libc doesn't have full feature parity with GNU libiconv. We ran into problems with type widths at $work where some of our code was misbehaving because iconv wasn't functioning like GNU libiconv.