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On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Robert Burmeister <
Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote:

> Was the 16 Feb 2014 change to glib20 2.36.3_2 to now require
> converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10 deliberate?
>
> Koop's commit message included:
"Add back depend on libiconv. This is needed because our base iconv doesn't
do utf-8 -> wchar_t apparently. [2] wchar_t is used by glibmm."

So it was clearly deliberate. I am a bit surprised as I have had no issues
with glib20 and no iconv. I also have glibmm and no iconv. But I use
en.US.UTF-8, so I may not hit the relevant code path. But I was certainly
able to build both without having iconv installed from ports.

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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com