Re: PR/39765 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glibmm

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39765; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/39765 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glibmm
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:41:23 +0100

 On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:55:02AM +0000, Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/39765; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Adam Ciarcinski" <adam%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: PR/39765 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glibmm
 > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:50:43 +0000
 > 
 >  Module Name:	pkgsrc
 >  Committed By:	adam
 >  Date:		Tue Feb  3 11:50:43 UTC 2015
 >  
 >  Modified Files:
 >  	pkgsrc/devel/glibmm: distinfo
 >  Added Files:
 >  	pkgsrc/devel/glibmm/patches: patch-glib_glibmm_ustring.cc
 >  
 >  Log Message:
 >  Work-around NetBSD's native iconv lacking support for WCHAR_T.
 >  See also PR 39765.
 >  Need for graphics/inkscape 0.91.
 
 The code is very suspicious. We do *not* store UCS4 in wchar_t and we do
 *not* support the translation to wchar_t via iconv, because it is
 completely undefined what such behavior should be. Really, this code
 should be using mbstowcs or similar and iconv.
 
 Joerg