setting. It can be built by setting the WITH_ICONV knob. While this
knob is unset, the library part, the binaries, the header file and
the metadata files will not be built or installed so it makes no impact
on the system if left turned off.
This work is based on the iconv implementation in NetBSD but a great
number of improvements and feature additions have been included:
- Some utilities have been added. There is a conversion table generator,
which can compare conversion tables to reference data generated by
GNU libiconv. This helps ensuring conversion compatibility.
- UTF-16 surrogate support and some endianness issues have been fixed.
- The rather chaotic Makefiles to build metadata have been refactored
and cleaned up, now it is easy to read and it is also easier to add
support for new encodings.
- A bunch of new encodings and encoding aliases have been added.
- Support for 1->2, 1->3 and 1->4 mappings, which is needed for
transliterating with flying accents as GNU does, like "u.
- Lots of warnings have been fixed, the major part of the code is
now WARNS=6 clean.
- New section 1 and section 5 manual pages have been added.
- Some GNU-specific calls have been implemented:
iconvlist(), iconvctl(), iconv_canonicalize(), iconv_open_into()
- Support for GNU's //IGNORE suffix has been added.
- The "-" argument for stdin is now recognized in iconv(1) as per POSIX.
- The Big5 conversion module has been fixed.
- The iconv.h header files is supposed to be compatible with the
GNU version, i.e. sources should build with base iconv.h and
GNU libiconv. It also includes a macro magic to deal with the
char ** and const char ** incompatibility.
- GNU compatibility: "" or "char" means the current local
encoding in use
- Various cleanups and style(9) fixes.
Approved by: delphij (mentor)
Obtained from: The NetBSD Project
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2009
This is an optional feature, disabled by default.
This will be useful to people testing the various POSIX threading
libraries under -CURRENT but can easily serve other needs.
# This appears to not break X11, but I'm having problems compiling the
# glide part of the server with or without this patch, so I can't tell
# for sure.
to be written to /etc.
The only essential change is in paths.h, so any third-party software
written correctly will pick it up in the next rebuild.
Reviewed by: the committers list (actually an old version)
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
_PATH_UNIX is currently defined as the literal string "don't use this".
I am of two minds about this myself, but wanted to get something into the
tree as quickly as possible.
/usr/include.
Make comment about mp.h missing and remove it from the list of files.
Fix installation of ufs include files as this is now a tree ufs/{ffs,lfs,
mfs,ufs}.
Make setting of SHARED optional by makeing it SHARED?=.
Comment out installation of X11 includes since it does not work
for XFree86 until we get XFree86 to install as /usr/X11.
Update _PATH_UNIX to be /kernel. Remove /usr/{contrib,old}/bin from
_PATH_STDPATH.
