Bug 554554

Summary:	net-misc/whois: external -liconv is not linked in when needed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	René Rhéaume <rene.rheaume>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	570544
Attachments:	whois-5.1.5.ebuild.patch

Description René Rhéaume 2015-07-11 21:01:43 UTC

On uclibc, even though the libraries are installed on the system and declared as dependencies, that are missing from the link command line when building whois. Therefore, the build fails. Solving this problem is simply passing the library names to the command line.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -1 net-misc/whois
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
emake failed (compile phase)

Expected Results:  
whois installed

Comment 1 René Rhéaume 2015-07-11 21:02:49 UTC

Created attachment 406564 [details, diff]
whois-5.1.5.ebuild.patch

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-07-15 02:52:27 UTC

this isn't specific to uClibc.  every system that has iconv functionality in a sep library is broken.

Comment 3 René Rhéaume 2017-01-28 23:08:17 UTC

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #2)
> this isn't specific to uClibc.  every system that has iconv functionality in
> a sep library is broken.

Is there an eclass function which indicates which environment needs -liconv ? I know it's needed for uclibc, FreeBSD before 10, Mac OS X (prefix) and Solaris (prefix) but where else?

By the way, the ebuild patch still applies to version 5.2.12 .

Comment 4 Sam James archtester

2021-09-10 04:03:48 UTC

(In reply to René Rhéaume from comment #3)
> (In reply to SpanKY from comment #2)
> > this isn't specific to uClibc.  every system that has iconv functionality in
> > a sep library is broken.
> 
> Is there an eclass function which indicates which environment needs -liconv
> ? I know it's needed for uclibc, FreeBSD before 10, Mac OS X (prefix) and
> Solaris (prefix) but where else?

The best way is to use an autoconf test. But this is a standalone homebrew Makefile...