[haiku-development] Re: Updating some Optional Packages

Hi Scott,

On 2009-05-24 at 20:53:43 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been working on updating some of the Optional Packages which were still
> installing to /home/config/bin, these include OpenSSH, subversion, apr,
> apr-util.  The subversion that is currently in the OptionalPackages was
> built with libs built in statically, any objections to having it use shared
> libs instead?  The shared libs would be: apr, apr-util, openssl (which were
> already optional packages), neon, sqlite and libiconv (the libiconv included
> with Haiku didn't seem to work for subversion, this is also used in netsurf
> and vlc IIRC but installed in their local folders).  So this would add 3
> OptionalPackages that are already options.

Can you remember what exactly went wrong with Haiku's own libiconv? It's 
kinda silly that three OptionalPackages already have to bring their own, so 
I'd like to solve the problem in haiku, if at all possible.

cheers,
        Oliver

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