On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 03:22:12PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> I want us to move ahead on this.
>
> To summarize:
>
> When you update a port, drop the converters/libiconv and devel/gettext
> MODULES and handle libiconv and libintl like any other library
> dependency. make port-lib-depends-check will help you.
>
> If your port requires any of the utilities from gettext-tools to
> build (typically: it runs something like "msgfmt -o foo.mo foo.po"),
> you also need to add devel/gettext-tools to BUILD_DEPENDS.
>
> I'll see if I can remove the gettext-tools dependency from some
> common build dependency paths. Like for the recent cleanups in the
> wake of the vax removal, I'll be the little mouse that keeps nibbling
> away at the edge of the moldy cheese.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
>
This seems pretty easy. I just did this to my most complex port, and
used the guidance from port-lib-depends-check. The portcheck(1) tool
will need to be revised; I'd offer a patch but I'm unsure what tests
should remain other than .mo for runtime.
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /systems/cvs/ports/net/transmission/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -u -p -r1.104 Makefile
--- Makefile 27 Mar 2016 16:19:17 -0000 1.104
+++ Makefile 5 Apr 2016 22:26:43 -0000
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ FLAVOR?=
.include <bsd.port.arch.mk>
WANTLIB-common= c crypto curl event_core event_extra m miniupnpc>=2.0 \
- natpmp pthread ssl z ${MODGETTEXT_WANTLIB}
-WANTLIB-main= ${WANTLIB-common} idn nghttp2
+ natpmp pthread ssl z intl
+WANTLIB-main= ${WANTLIB-common} idn nghttp2 iconv
WANTLIB-gtk= ${WANTLIB-common} ICE SM X11 Xcomposite Xcursor Xdamage \
Xext Xfixes Xi Xinerama Xrandr Xrender \
atk-1.0 atk-bridge-2.0 atspi cairo cairo-gobject \
@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ WANTLIB-gtk= ${WANTLIB-common} ICE SM X1
gobject-2.0 graphite2 gthread-2.0 gtk-3 \
harfbuzz pango-1.0 pangoft2-1.0 \
pangocairo-1.0 pixman-1 png pcre pthread-stubs xcb \
- xcb-render xcb-shm epoxy idn nghttp2
+ xcb-render xcb-shm epoxy idn nghttp2 iconv
WANTLIB-qt= ${WANTLIB-common} ${MODQT_WANTLIB} \
GL Qt5Core Qt5DBus Qt5Gui Qt5Network Qt5Widgets \
fontconfig freetype estdc++
-MODULES= devel/gettext textproc/intltool
+MODULES= textproc/intltool
LIB_DEPENDS-common=${MODGETTEXT_LIB_DEPENDS} \
devel/libevent2 \
