Re: iconv in base breaks multiple ports

From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl_at_coosemans.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:23:09 +0200
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:34:45 +0200 Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 13:18:55 +0200, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
>> * Ulrich Spörlein [Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:27:23 +0200]:
>>> ever since that iconv thing replaced the ports version, I run into
>>> trouble with several ports that I have installed on a -CURRENT (now
>>> stable/10 system).
>>> 
>>> These are not compile-time errors, but crashes or limited functionality
>>> where I blame iconv :)
>>> 
>>> 1. www/newsbeuter crashes during startup, somewhere in the stfl code
>>> that deals with wide char functions.
>>> 
>>> Is my system hexed? I've rebuilt the ports/packages a dozen times now.
>>> Am I seeing ghosts?
>> 
>> I don't run Current, but according to the pkg-fallout mails i am
>> receiving, newsbeuter shouldn't even compile on CURRENT. Maybe there are
>> some stale files on your system?
>> 
>> There is also an update in the PR system, you might want to try,
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/182896
> 
> Right, I had to set USE_GCC=any and muck with -liconv flags of course to
> get it to build.

Hmm, does this mean you still have libiconv installed?  Because then
your crashes may be because some libraries use libc iconv and others
libiconv iconv.
Received on Tue Oct 22 2013 - 15:23:15 UTC

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