Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:30:15 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: converters/php55-iconv Message-ID: <a5c04ac46a1fbf554f0dab0c6cf96318@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <20140211221503.109d297b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <5ed83c0c6dfa6e5ac815170fe66b6d25@dweimer.net> <003c01cf2734$0fb58250$2f2086f0$@shaw.ca> <de98372f0b5f4860eee4da19c872a313@dweimer.net> <20140211221503.109d297b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 02/11/2014 3:15 pm, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:38:32 -0600 dweimer wrote:
>> On 02/11/2014 8:17 am, Dale Scott wrote:
>>>> Does anybody know if its possible to get the converters/php55-iconv
>>>> port to install on FreeBSD 10 without, installing
>>>> converters/libiconv?
>>>
>>> Installed ok for me. I built php5 from ports in order to build the
>>> Apache module, then built php55-iconv from ports using
>>> php5-extensions.
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> FreeBSD firefly.scc.local 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0
>>> r260789:
>>> Fri Jan 17 01:46:25 UTC 2014
>>> root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>>> $ pkg info | grep iconv
>>> php55-iconv-5.5.7 The iconv shared extension for php
>>> $
>>
>> It does install, and work, however it also installed
>> converters/libiconv, after which devel/pear failed to build. Also NUT
>> stopped working, at least it wouldn't load my UPS driver (powerpannel)
>> removing converters/php55-iconv and converters/libiconv fixed the pear
>> build issue, and rebuilding sysutils/nut without it installed resolved
>> its issue as well. (well actually I rebuilt all ports, NUT doesn't
>> require libiconv, but it uses gmake, which does).
>>
>> I may have been hit by the order in which I installed things, having
>> some things using one iconv and the others another. However a
>> portmaster -af failed to correct the issue until removing
>> converters/libiconv.
>
> When upgrading to FreeBSD 10 you can continue to use your installed
> ports
> but once you want to update or rebuild a port it may be best to remove
> all
> ports first and then reinstall them. So many things have change in
> FreeBSD
> 10 that reinstalling one by one like portmaster does may not be
> sufficient.
The system was built on FreeBSD 10 originally, and not upgraded, I only
did the portmaster -af after running into problems, in an attempt to fix
them, not as part of an upgrade. The problems showed up after
installing an update using portmaster -r that reinstalled several ports
after the php55-iconv and libiconv was installed.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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