> On 12 Feb 2016, at 09:16, Ardie H. Hwang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I need an advice or two regarding the problem I met.
> 
> I am preparing a submission of new port, which depends on <iconv.h>: 
> `databases/mariadb-connector-c`.
> Everything went okay, until Poudriere test in 9.3-RELEASE jail reported build 
> failure. Apparently <iconv.h> has been added to base system since 
> 10.0-RELEASE.
> 
> The question is: this limiting OS version for this port, is this a 
> discouraged idea? The method I am thinking is to display error if OS version 
> is less than 10.x, upon checking OSVERSION makevar in Makefile. But this will 
> discriminate against fellow 9.x users.
> I have another solution of adding `converters/iconv` (libiconv.so) as this 
> port's library dependency. However, I am worried that doing this might cause 
> problem on 10.x versions.
> 
> Can someone tell me what to do regarding this <iconv.h> on 9.x?

Please see:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/using-iconv.html

- michael

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