Re: multimedia/libass and libiconv

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:42:28 +0900, Matthias Ferdinand 
<mf+ml.pkgsrc-users%netzwerkagentursaarland.de@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> multimedia/libass does not handle iconv properly. While there are iconv
> tests in configure, they wrongly conclude that no "-liconv" linker
> option is necessary.
> The libiconv buildlink3.mk also adds configure option
> "--with-iconv-prefix=..." , which the original configure script does not
> know (but ignores).
>
> For SunOS, there is already a workaround:
>
>     Makefile:
>      ...
>      20 LDFLAGS.SunOS+= -liconv
>
> On NetBSD 5.1 and Linux, I found libass causing problems building
> ffmpeg, which fails in configure stage trying to use libass. config.log
> says that libass.so could not find iconv functions.
>
> Variants of the above workaround also work on NetBSD 5.1 and Linux.

Fixed by Makefile rev 1.9.

> Another successful method is adding
>
>    AM_ICONV
>
> to configure.ac, touch "config.rpath" and then run "autoreconf" prior to
> running configure.
>
> That would (hopefully) work on all platforms.

Yes, it should be noticed to upstream, for the case using external iconv
over libc builtin one.

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