[kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

[David Johnson]

On Monday 06 April 2009 10:54:06 am David Johnson wrote:
> 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.

I'm attaching a screenshot I just made, to show the behavior.

> 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.

I played around with this, rebuilding libiconv after gettext, but to no 
effect. Oh well, it was worth a shot...

-- 
David Johnson