Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-08 Thread David Johnson
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:40:16 pm David Naylor wrote: > Yes, I think it is more important to get Qt 4.5 into ports ASAP then waste > time fixing this problem. This problem could be fixed later? > > Please see the attached patch that fixes devel/qt4-corelib (and thus Qt4.5 > and libiconv). Th

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-08 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:41:28 David Johnson wrote: > > SOLUTION 2: > > ... > > The attached files restore the behaviour of the previous code. This > > probably will result in a performance loss (but remain par with Qt4.4.3). > > Since the changes are isolated to those two files and the API has

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-07 Thread David Johnson
> SOLUTION 1: > Disable libiconv support altogether. This, I believe, is a viable solution > since Windows does not have iconv and we should be using whatever fallback > it does. This should result in no loss of functionality. This is what I am doing for non-port builds of 4.5.0. It's also what'

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-07 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 07:25:16 David Johnson wrote: > I played around with this, rebuilding libiconv after gettext, but to no > effect. Oh well, it was worth a shot... I've managed to get Qt 4.5 to behave well with libiconv. It was a bit of a cheat though. There is also another solution.

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:25:16 pm David Johnson wrote: > I'm attaching a screenshot I just made, to show the behavior. I always forget to attach my attachments :-( -- David Johnson <>___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.o

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:54:06 am David Johnson wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 01:06:11 am Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of > > "behave" is though -- does it not compile? Not run? > > To repeat David Naylor, it builds fine, but all g

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 01:06:11 am Adriaan de Groot wrote: > So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of "behave" > is though -- does it not compile? Not run? To repeat David Naylor, it builds fine, but all glyphs at runtime are square boxes. > > > So which one is impleme

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Naylor
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:06:11 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: > > > > I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it > > > > just doesn't.  My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc > > > > provides all the iconv

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: > > > I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it > > > just doesn't.  My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc > > > provides all the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and > > > glibc differ

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Naylor
On Friday 03 April 2009 20:32:30 David Johnson wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009 11:02:20 am David Naylor wrote: > > What is the course of action from here? Complain to Qt Software, hope > > someone sorts it out or ignore the problem? Oh and how does one file a > > bug with Qt Software? > > A new

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 03 April 2009 11:02:20 am David Naylor wrote: > What is the course of action from here? Complain to Qt Software, hope > someone sorts it out or ignore the problem? Oh and how does one file a bug > with Qt Software? A new bug reporting system is being setup, as Qt transitions to a more

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Naylor
On Friday 03 April 2009 18:08:06 David Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 01:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: > > > I configure Qt with --no-iconv for exactly this reason. > > > > Is there any functionality lost? Do you see *any* square blocks after > > doing this? > > I'm not seeing any squar

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 02 April 2009 01:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: > > I configure Qt with --no-iconv for exactly this reason. > > Is there any functionality lost? Do you see *any* square blocks after > doing this? I'm not seeing any squares. But I don't have a lot of documents in non-latin1 codecs. --

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-02 Thread David Naylor
On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:10:04 David Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:00:38 am David Naylor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it > > just doesn't. My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides > > all the iconv f

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-02 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:00:38 am David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just > doesn't. My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all > the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and glibc differ in > their