Re: Old octave issue

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

And it's faithful companion the invalid assumption...

If I recall, this is related to one of the issues I hit when building on 
CentOS a while back.

Do you know of a direct way of detecting whether charset_alias is 
needed, rather than assuming base on the OS?

Thanks for tracking this down.

    Jason

On 08/08/16 07:52, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:15:39AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I don't understand the charset.alias issue.   It seems that there's
> > something going on with iconv or similar where packages choose to
> > install a charset.alias depending on something else.
> The something else turned out to be interesting. From:
>
>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/modules/localcharset#n45
>
> 	if test $(GLIBC21) = no; then \
> 	  case '$(host_os)' in \
> 	    darwin[56]*) \
> 	      need_charset_alias=true ;; \
> 	    darwin* | cygwin* | mingw* | pw32* | cegcc*) \
> 	      need_charset_alias=false ;; \
> 	    *) \
> 	      need_charset_alias=true ;; \
> 	  esac ; \
> 	else \
> 	  need_charset_alias=false ; \
>
> We seem to have our old friend the hand coded list of operating system names.
>
> > There are two
> > approaches to deal with this.   One is to make conditional PLIST entries
> > to register the file on platforms that create it.  The other is to
> > understand and fix the root cause of the variance.   I think we should
> > figure out and fix the issue.  This is partly because I think it will be
> > easier in the long run, and partly becuase installation of files that
> > aren't about the package itself will lead to odd conflicts.
> It appears that the current solution is to not install it by removing
> it from the PLIST, as /usr/pkg/lib/charset.alias is listed in
> VARNAME=CHECK_FILES_SKIP.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick


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