Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: Add libiconv.

[John Darrington]

On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:07:56PM +0300, Manolis Ragkousis wrote:
     ?????????????????? Jan,
     
     On 04/29/2016 06:12 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
     > +  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
     > +  #:export (glibc
     > +            libiconv-if-needed))
     
     The #:export (glibc...) part only exists in wip-hurd so we need to
     remove this in order for your patch to apply on master.
     
     > +(define-public libiconv
     > +  (package
     > +   (name "libiconv")
     > +   (version "1.14")
     > +   (source (origin
     > +            (method url-fetch)
     > +            (uri (string-append
     > +                  "mirror://gnu/libiconv/libiconv-"
     > +                  version ".tar.gz"))
     > +            (sha256
     > +             (base32
     > +              "04q6lgl3kglmmhw59igq1n7v3rp1rpkypl366cy1k1yn2znlvckj"))))
     > +   (build-system gnu-build-system)
     > +   (synopsis "Character set conversion library")
     > +   (description
     > +     "libiconv provides an implementation of the iconv function for 
systems
     > +that lack it.  iconv is used to convert between character encodings in a
     > +program.  It supports a wide variety of different encodings.")
     > +   (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/";)
     > +   (license lgpl3+)))
     
     Maybe we should break this patch into two different ones, one for the
     libiconv package description and one for the libiconv-if-needed. The
     first will go to master and the second to core-updates. WDYT?
     
     > +
     > +(define* (libiconv-if-needed #:optional (target 
(%current-target-system)))
     > +  (if (mingw-target? target)
     > +      `(("libiconv" ,libiconv))
     > +      '()))
     > +
     
     I am sorry for my ignorance but why is libiconv needed when targeting 
mingw?
     
Because Microsoft does not implement iconv, and presumably this package needs 
it.

J'

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