On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:20:12 +1300
Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> 	From:  Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@NetBSD.org>
> 	Date:  Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:11:23 -0500
> 
> > It's been sugested that perhaps the _USE_ICONV variable set in the
> > libiconv buildlink2.mk file should maybe be changed to or set aan
> > additional variable, USE_GNU_ICONV, so that packages such as glib2
> > that have some special arguments for configure that are needed when
> > using libiconv instead of the native iconv can do things like:
> > 
> > .if defined(USE_GNU_ICONV)
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-iconv=gnu
> > .endif
> > 
> > Any comments on this?  
> 
> Actually the suggestion was USING_GNU_ICONV, but I didn't really like
> that name.
> 
> There is already a USE_GNU_ICONV for when you want to override the
> platform 
> default and say that you _must_ use the gnu libiconv package.
> 
> What we need is something that tells us that we have decided to
> actually use 
> the libiconv package.  ie that either USE_GNU_ICONV=yes *or* using the
> package 
> is the default for the platform.  This is what the _USE_ICONV variable
> 
> currently does.

looks like I typed before reading enough.  How about ICONV_IS_GNU as the
public version of _USE_ICONV and leave it up to the specific packages to
see what if anything they want to do with it?

-Dan


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