Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:40:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Manjunath Warad <manjunathwarad@huawei.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD iconv on Linux Message-ID: <20070714144043.GG44766@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01c7c5eb$d8785660$5318120a@china.huawei.com> References: <20070714061738.GE44766@dan.emsphone.com> <002f01c7c5eb$d8785660$5318120a@china.huawei.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 14), Manjunath Warad said: > From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] > >In the last episode (Jul 13), Manjunath Warad said: > >> Can someone direct me as how to use FreeBSD iconv on linux? I know > >> there exists a GNU iconv on linux; however, I am interested in using > >> FreeBSD iconv. > >> > >> I would be grateful if someone let me know how to get the complete > >> package [source code and makefiles] on windows machine and if > >> possible let me know what are the changes involved to port the > >> source code and makefiles to build in Linux. > > > >The sources are at > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/bland/ , but > >it really hasn't been updated since 2000. All the FreeBSD ports > >depend on GNU iconv. > > Thanks for your reply Dan, You mean, FreeBSD iconv is using GNU iconv > library internally? I was interested in the iconv source code. Please > let me know whether FreeBSD has its own source code for iconv. There is no iconv at all in the base system. Any port that requires iconv sets the USE_ICONV Makefile variable, which will add the converters/libiconv (GNU iconv) port as a dependency. The link I gave above is for a BSD-licensed version of iconv, but it never got into the base system, just the ports tree. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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