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Bug 420087 - allow emerging dev-libs/libiconv for mingw
Summary: allow emerging dev-libs/libiconv for mingw
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 417451
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Other
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo/BSD Team
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Reported: 2012-06-07 10:50 UTC by Maciej S. Szmigiero
Modified: 2012-06-16 00:18 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej S. Szmigiero 2012-06-07 10:50:52 UTC 
dev-libs/libiconv is useful in a mingw environment. Currently it is keyworded only for FreeBSD, so it should to be keyworded for x86 (and possibly amd64, too).
The ebuild already has blocker for glibc, so it should be no problem that somebody emerges this package by mistake on a GNU system.

Also, libiconv-1.14 ebuild calls "gen_usr_ldscript -a". This invokes scanelf on built libraries to extract their SONAME, which obviously won't work on a DLL.
The libiconv-1.13.1 uses "gen_usr_ldscript" without "-a", which has no such problem.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-07 12:35:07 UTC 
I don't think anything is stopping you from emerging it in a mingw environment. And AFAIK we do not have such a keyword. Maybe x86-winnt or x86-interix?
Comment 2 Maciej S. Szmigiero 2012-06-07 12:41:05 UTC 
Yes they can be emerged in mingw environment (I assume you mean mingw32-emerge by this), but not before manually keywording this package (otherwise emerge stops with "All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/libiconv" for /usr/mingw32/ have been masked") and changing this "gen_usr_ldscript" line.
Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2012-06-12 21:37:17 UTC 
Assigning to dev-libs/libiconv maintainer
Comment 4 Naohiro Aota gentoo-dev 2012-06-16 00:18:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 417451 ***