On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:49, Ben Taylor <bentaylor.solx86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Saturday 21 February 2009 04:05:20 pm Lukas Oboril wrote:
>>> I think we should save our original FOSSgettext, FOSSlibiconv combo to
>>> prevent another build troubles
>>
>> I'm really not very happy with that, simply because of the horrors involved
>> with having three (Sun iconv, GNU iconv, and our own) iconv libraries and
>> three gettext libraries installed on the system. I can live with libcdio 
>> being
>> made smart enough to find the SUNW gettext, though.
>
> seeing as I've taken on the S10 builds, I have no issue other than I want it
> to build/work with minimal effort.  Stefan can probably comment on whether
> Sun's iconv or the gnu iconv distributed in S10 is required.  I suspect that
> given the development path of the KDE4 Solaris and using FOSS's iconv,
> there will be some "tweaking" required for the builds.
>
> Also, not using FOSSiconv from the perspective on maintaining consistency
> between builds (S10, SXCE, OSOL) is concerning from the prospect of
> problems.  (It doesnt' run on S10, it runs on OSOL - type of thing)

SUNWgnu-gettext is recent in Nevada. It doesn't exist in S10. and It
only delivers the executables, and not the libraries [ libiconv and
libintl ].

S10 needs FOSSiconv.

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman at gmail.com

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