Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:47:01 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> Subject: Re: libbconv Message-ID: <54CAF0A5.6030705@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGHfRMCoX_e=QFtUDwMOBs4KoPeZ%2BTuh-MChBZHOvOUGKJ6jfg@mail.gmail.com> References: <54C8C0B6.6030306@erdgeist.org> <54C8D52C.4010005@madpilot.net> <54C8E22E.8040207@erdgeist.org> <54C8ECC6.2000303@madpilot.net> <A3CAF0E84A34A540B4C74454358E003F35DBAA78@MX103CL02.corp.emc.com> <54C8FA01.7010904@madpilot.net> <54C8FA4E.9020607@erdgeist.org> <54CA5E6D.2060501@freebsd.org> <CAGHfRMCoX_e=QFtUDwMOBs4KoPeZ%2BTuh-MChBZHOvOUGKJ6jfg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/30/15 3:17 AM, NGie Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> 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. so who exactly did that import and why? it causes quite a bit of confusion.
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