Bug 12402

Summary:	libiconv-1.8 [new ebuild]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Spider (RETIRED) <spider>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	olly, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	dev-libs/libiconv-1.8.ebuild

Description Oliver Burnett-Hall 2002-12-18 11:10:01 UTC

Here is a ebuild for dev-libs/libiconv-1.8 (the most recent version in portage
is 1.7).

libiconv 1.8 is needed for recent builds of Abiword.

There isn't anything complicated in the ebuild, just a simple patch to make it
stop looking in /usr/lib/ for libiconv.la during 'make install'.

- olly

Comment 1 Oliver Burnett-Hall 2002-12-18 11:11:11 UTC

Created attachment 6588 [details]
dev-libs/libiconv-1.8.ebuild

Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-19 20:57:50 UTC

Why is this necessary for the abiword builds? is it not enough with glibc 2.3.x
for  abiword?  the last time I instated this package a lot of things broke,
mainly things that suddenly needed the --with-libiconv configure flag.

Comment 3 Oliver Burnett-Hall 2002-12-21 08:50:15 UTC

Because I hadn't read the install notes carefully enough :-/

If you pass --without-libiconv to configure then abiword will build happily
without this package, so it isn't needed.

Please close this bug (not sure if it should go to INVALID or WONTFIX so I'm not
doing it myself).

Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-21 19:32:42 UTC

doing just that