Great! At this point I am going to start drafting an ARC case. Should I draft up a combined ARC case due to the circular dependencies?
Thanks, Brian P.S. - I pinged the GNU maintainer to see if this circular dependancy can be resolved, but I am guessing it won't happen in short order. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at sun.com> wrote: > > I'm sure that we can make it work by building and installing against a proto > area and then building against that proto area. > > ? -Norm > > Brian Gupta wrote: >> >> Norm, >> >> Thanks for your quick reply. One more question if I may. >> >> According to the build instructions for GNU libiconv, it has a >> circular dependency against GNU gettext (on non-Linux platforms): >> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ >> >> "On systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be >> internationalized only if GNU gettext has been built and installed >> before GNU libiconv. This means that the first time GNU libiconv is >> installed, we have a circular dependency between the GNU libiconv and >> GNU gettext packages, which can be resolved by building and installing >> either: >> >> - first libiconv, then gettext, then libiconv again, >> >> or (on systems supporting shared libraries, excluding AIX) >> >> - first gettext, then libiconv, then gettext again. >> " >> >> Is this gonna be doable? I'm thinking if not, we might have to include >> a degraded GNU gettext. >> >> Thanks, >> Brian >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at sun.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> See http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2007/047/ conflicts go into >>> /usr/gnu/lib. >>> >>> ? ? -Norm >>> >>> Brian Gupta wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What is the current policy for integrating GNU libraries that have a >>>> Solaris equivalent? (eg. - gettext and libiconv) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- - Brian Gupta New York City user groups calendar: http://nyc.brandorr.com/
