Question regarding lib dependencies, esp gettext

[David Bruce]

Hi Ryan,

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 02:16:02 pm Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> It is MacPorts policy to use its own software, not system software,
> wherever possible. See the FAQ:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/
> FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries

> Therefore both port:libiconv and port:gettext should be listed as
> library dependencies of tuxmath.

Thanks - so port:gettext will stay.

> (Though gettext itself depends on 
> libiconv, so you only need to list libiconv as a dependency of
> tuxmath if tuxmath uses libiconv independently of gettext. I'm not
> sure how to determine whether this is the case, other than asking the
> tuxmath developers or delving into the tuxmath source code.)

That's easy, seeing as how I am also the upstream developer ;)

 Tuxmath does not currently directly call any function from libiconv, but may 
in the future, so I'll add port:libiconv to be safe.

Thanks,

-- 
David Bruce