On Jun 7, 11:08 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2:20 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Dave,
> > I've now submitted this as a trac event - number 3381.
Good.
> >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3381#preview
>
> > Dave
>
> I noticed in an email Micheal sent me which showed errors on Solaris,
> the workaround was to add the option --with-conv=no.
That email had a bunch of other problems that need to go in trac. I
made finished my journey to the west coast and after caching up on
sleep I am now productive. So things should be moving on the Solaris
port now again.
> However, I don't think that will work for long, as looking at the
> configure script on R 2.7.0, I see:
>
> ## iconv headers and function.
> if test "${use_iconv}" = yes; then
> R_ICONV
> if test "$r_cv_iconv_latin1" != yes; then
> AC_MSG_ERROR([--with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is
> not available])
> fi
> else
> AC_MSG_WARN([--with-iconv=no is deprecated and will be withdrawn
> shortly])
> fi
I had hoped they fixed this issue in the 2.7 release, but I guess they
did not.
> So they intend removing that option soon, so it really does look like
> Sage needs to include iconv.
Well, for the 64 bit OSX build of R I have disabled iconv for now
since OSX does not ship a 64 bit iconv library. Including iconv was
discussed in the past, but IIRC it is large and builds slow, so we
might just disable iconv support on certain platforms unless somebody
comes up with a compelling reason that we need it :)
Cheers,
Michael
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