Hi,

I tried building fontforge today on NetBSD 3.99.7. It compiled fine, but 
when running it complained heavily about libiconv; apparently it was 
unable to support several encodings, such as MacRoman.

The quick fix for me was to add

 	USE_BUILTIN.iconv=NO

to /etc/mk.conf.

Some questions:

  1. Why use the builtin libiconv? (The existence of a 
converters/libiconv/builtin.mk file tells me that there must be a good 
reason.)

  2. Is my "fix" a good solution? (Is it better for other packages to use 
the pkgsrc libiconv?)

  3. Is there a way to force just fontforge to use pkgsrc libiconv?


Any comments/suggestions/jokes would be most welcome.  Thanks,

-- 
Tyler Mitchell <fission@ldx.ca> . . . . . . . . http://www.ldx.ca/