From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 14 14:41:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9007F16A404 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B3913C49D for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l6EEei4P078842; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:40:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:40:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Manjunath Warad Message-ID: <20070714144043.GG44766@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070714061738.GE44766@dan.emsphone.com> <002f01c7c5eb$d8785660$5318120a@china.huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002f01c7c5eb$d8785660$5318120a@china.huawei.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD iconv on Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:41:00 -0000 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