[ITA] libiconv-1.16-1, libiconv2-1.16, libcharset1-1.16-1

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Sun Jul 12 22:16:01 GMT 2020


On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 19:45 +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 11.07.2020 04:03, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I suggest an update to libiconv 1.16,  since the current Cygwin
> > packages of libiconv 1.14 are old (updated 5 years ago).
> > 
> > Cygport files are forked
> > to https://github.com/cygwin-lem/libiconv-cygport/tree/w_1.16
> > from http://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/libiconv .
> > 
> > 
> > New test package files are placed here:
> > https://cygwin-lem.github.io/libiconv-cygport/index.html .
> > 
> > Please, check them:
> 
> Looks good to me
> 
> except the build of static import libraries
> 
> usr/lib/libcharset.a
> usr/lib/libiconv.a
> 
> I will stick to only:
> usr/lib/libcharset.dll.a
> usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a

Static libiconv is used when building Cygwin dumper.exe (as a
dependency of libbfd.a, which is static only).  Therefore it should be
present.  Note that my .cygport has an explicit --enable-static, which
should have indicated that this was deliberate.

--
Yaakov




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