The latest release of R in Sage will not build without iconv on Solaris. The
option to disable the use of iconv, which was previously done in spkg-install,
no longer functions. R *needs* iconv, and the one in Solaris is not suitable.
Hence I propose that iconv is made a standard package.
I've created a ticket
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191
and have also created the package - see
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/new-packages/iconv/
At this point, I've marked the ticket as 'needs info' as I have no added the
Mercurial repository, so it is not really ready for review. But the only change
I intend making is to add the repository. Hence it would be useful if people
could test this.
I've tested it on
* sage.math Linux (defaults to 64-bit)
* bsd.math OS X (defaults to 64-bit)
* OpenSolaris 06/2009 on a Sun Ultra 27 (Intel Xeon processor) - 32-bit
* OpenSolaris 06/2009 on a Sun Ultra 27 (Intel Xeon processor) - 64-bit.
* Solaris 10 03/2005 on a Sun Blade 1000 (UltraSPARC III+ processor) -
32-bit
* Solaris 10 03/2005 on a Sun Blade 1000 (UltraSPARC III+ processor) -
64-bit
All tests pass, except on Solaris 10 (SPARC) where one dumps core. I'll just
have to live with that for now. I will report it to the developers.
So can this go into the standard distribution?
Have I overlooked anything in SPKG.txt or spkg-install?
Dave
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