The following reply was made to PR pkg/35937; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: uli@habel.name
Subject: Re: pkg/35937: converters/libiconv fails on Debian/Linux 2.4
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:42:26 -0600 (CST)

 On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, uli@habel.name wrote:
 
 > It seems that the gcc-2.95 on Sarge doesn't understand the option 
 > -c99/-gnu99 as C standard. I used this small patch to check if the 
 > current platform is Linux and avoid the term USE_LANGUAGES+= c99 c++. 
 > However, I am not sure if the c99 setting is needed on other platforms 
 > so I exclude them. The setting of USE_LANGUAGES+= c however is needed to 
 > build.
 
 Can you also ask about this on tech-pkg@ mailing list?
 
 Thanks.