dg0yt
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3 months ago OpenBSD has BSD's implementation of iconv, but glib and friends - via gnu gettext - rely on GNU's implementation of iconv.
Where can this be verified w.r.t. BSD?
- [ ] glib relying on the GNU implementation of gettext/libintl
- [ ] GNU gettext relying on the GNU implementation of iconv
FTR vcpkg should also correctly handle musl libc Linux systems which don't have gettext/libintl in the C lib.
I do know that gettext comes with detection logic built into m4 files for autotools, and I assume that's why we don't have pkg-config files. CMake has Find modules, but they need wrappers in vcpkg. Meson ... still not encouraging.
Describe the bug Vcpkg's libiconv port omits the deployment of GNU iconv on OpenBSD, causes some packages depend on that fail to build.
This issus is divided from https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/39748, which is infact the obfuscation of two problems.
May be fixed by https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/39824.
Environment
Expected behavior Libiconv should not omit its configuration on OpenBSD.