[kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

[David Johnson]

On Monday 06 April 2009 01:06:11 am Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of "behave"
> is though -- does it not compile? Not run?

To repeat David Naylor, it builds fine, but all glyphs at runtime are square 
boxes.

> > > So which one is implemented incorrectly, libiconv or glibc? If Qt
> > > assumes glibc, which almost by definition means Linux only, then a bug
> > > should be filed with Nokia to turn off iconv support for all non-Linux
> > > systems.
>
> The traditional difference is
>
>        size_t iconv(iconv_t cd,
>                     char **inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft,
>                     char **outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
>
> in some implementations (UNIX98 standard?), inbuf is a const char **.

The libiconv manpage shows that it's using const char** inbuf. The odd thing 
is that libiconv is a GNU implementation, so it should have the same behavior 
as the glibc version.

I notice in the libiconv docs, it says:

"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..." 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>

Perhaps this is the source of the problem. Real life has been intruding on my 
FreeBSD playtime, so I don't know when I can get a chance to poke around in 
this area.

-- 
David Johnson