301074 – please add ~arm or arm keyword to dev-libs/libiconv

Bug 301074 - please add ~arm or arm keyword to dev-libs/libiconv

Summary: please add ~arm or arm keyword to dev-libs/libiconv

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	ARM Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2010-01-15 12:12 UTC by Gruffi
Modified:	2010-01-15 19:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Gruffi 2010-01-15 12:12:16 UTC

Tried to emerge syslog-ng on arm but fails because it depends on libiconv.
Error: Missing keyword

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge syslog-ng
2. error: no keyword for libiconv
3.

Actual Results:  
error: no keyword for libiconv

Expected Results:  
emerge dependency libiconv

Comment 1 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2010-01-15 19:32:41 UTC

As far as I'm aware iconv is part of glibc, so libiconv is only useful on BSD systems. So keywording it for a linux profile makes little sense :)