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Subject: Re: bsd/citrus iconv
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Em 17-02-2012 17:19, Dag-Erling Smørgrav escreveu:
> >Andriy Gapon<avg@FreeBSD.org>  writes:
> >>But nothing precludes it from being a separate library in principle?
> >>There is even src/lib/libiconv, it's just not connected to the build.
> >You're right - for some reason, I thought src/lib/libiconv was just a
> >Makefile for GNU libiconv.
> POSIX requires iconv() to be in libc. However, a glue Makefile was 
> provided there for testing purposes.

Where do you see that?  I believe it's optional.  Providing it as
a separate library is more maintainable, and makes it easier for
people to drop in a different iconv library if they need it.