Re: Question regarding print/fig2dev

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 07:15:45AM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Looking at the package's print/fig2dev/Makefile, it would appear to include
> converters/libiconv/buildlink3.mk which seems to add a dependency on
> libiconv:
> 
> 	BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.iconv+=   libiconv>=1.9.1
> 	BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.iconv+=   libiconv>=1.9.1nb4
> 
> Yet, when building fig2dev, the "Installing dependencies" phase makes no
> mention of libiconv; it does list
> 
> 	...
> 	===> Installing dependencies for fig2dev-3.2.6a
> 	=> Build dependency x11-links>=1.06: found x11-links-1.06
> 	=> Build dependency cwrappers>=20150314: found cwrappers-20171108
> 	=> Full dependency png>=1.6.0nb1: found png-1.6.34
> 	===> Overriding tools for fig2dev-3.2.6a
> 	...
> 
> I'm confused - why is there no dependency for libiconv?

Because NetBSD's libc includes iconv support. See iconv(3).
 Thomas