missing iconv is a common problem with uclibc. Many apps have --disable-nls but few have this implemented properly. this is the case with vlc. I have tried to fix it but it seems like it actually needs iconv. It is possile to work around this by using the mini-iconv and link it statically. (its approx 2k so link dynamically would increase the disk usage)
Created attachment 149088 [details] vlc-0.8.6e-r1.ebuild --- vlc-0.8.6e-r1.ebuild.orig 2008-04-08 09:16:33 +0000 +++ vlc-0.8.6e-r1.ebuild 2008-04-08 09:02:24 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/vlc/vlc-0.8.6e-r1.ebuild,v 1.7 2008/03/27 11:36:27 aballier Exp $ +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/vlc/vlc-0.8.6e-r1.ebuild,v 1.6 2008/03/24 17:57:15 klausman Exp $ WANT_AUTOMAKE=latest WANT_AUTOCONF=latest @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ fi SRC_URI="${SRC_URI} - mirror://gentoo/${PN}-patches-${PATCHLEVEL}.tar.bz2" + mirror://gentoo/${PN}-patches-${PATCHLEVEL}.tar.bz2 + http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/alpine/alpine/mini-iconv/mini-iconv.tar.bz2" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" @@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ oss aalib ggi libcaca esd arts alsa wxwindows ncurses xosd lirc stream mp3 xv bidi sdl sdl-image png xml samba daap corba modplug speex shout rtsp win32codecs skins hal avahi xinerama cddb directfb upnp nsplugin seamonkey -optimisememory libnotify jack musepack x264 dc1394 gnome" +optimisememory libnotify jack musepack x264 dc1394 gnome nls" RDEPEND=" >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r1 @@ -158,6 +159,15 @@ local XPIDL="" local MOZILLA_CONFIG="" + if ! use nls; then + # build statically against the mini-iconv + cd "${WORKDIR}/mini-iconv" + emake static || die "mini-iconv" + emake install DESTDIR="${WORKDIR}" PREFIX="/mini-iconv" + myconf="${myconf} --with-libiconv-prefix=${WORKDIR}/mini-iconv" + cd "${S}" + fi + use vlm && \ myconf="${myconf} --enable-vlm --enable-sout" || \ myconf="${myconf} --disable-vlm" @@ -253,6 +263,7 @@ $(use_enable x264) \ $(use_enable dc1394) \ $(use_enable directfb) \ + $(use_enable nls) \ --enable-ffmpeg \ --disable-faad \ --disable-dv \
btw... the mini-conv was found here: http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/portage/local/misc/mini-iconv/ The tarball should probably be hosted on mirror://gentoo
Created attachment 151340 [details] vlc-0.8.6f.ebuild uses uiconv rather than mini-iconv. Difference is that uiconv actually manage to convert from and to iso-8859-1 and utf-8 while mini-iconv only claims to do so while it only manage to handle ascii (7 bit).
ive attempted before to get vlc working without iconv (after hacking down into the code to stub things out) and could never get it to work without adding mini-iconv into ebuilds isnt acceptable ... if it cant be integrated generically (which is to say you emerge the package and then the iconv detection/linking happens magically in all other packages), then there's nothing to be done ... the proposed changes certainly should not be added to the vlc ebuild
(In reply to comment #4) > ive attempted before to get vlc working without iconv (after hacking down into > the code to stub things out) and could never get it to work without > > adding mini-iconv into ebuilds isnt acceptable ... if it cant be integrated > generically (which is to say you emerge the package and then the iconv > detection/linking happens magically in all other packages), then there's > nothing to be done ... the proposed changes certainly should not be added to > the vlc ebuild correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you want it automatically detected and linked in. I believe that there are way too many programs that will find it and link it in that really don't need to, adding completely unnecessary bloat. could be a dynamic lib but IIRC that caused problems with the gcc upgrades. Thats the reason the gnu iconv is masked. The only apps that really *need* iconv are very few. So far I have only met glib and vlc of 400-500 uclibc apps.
thats the point of USE flags ... to prevent automatic detection (when possible) in the case of vlc/glib, it is not possible
well, this bug is quite old, please contact upstream if this still fails
it does fail, but i don't think this is something to fix in vlc. i know it works with GNU libiconv on uClibc systems.
