From: Bruno Haible Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 09:13:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Update DEPENDENCIES. X-Git-Tag: v0.23~257 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e45d9d3bf8fc53e73997f440d4f8074d775969f9;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git Update DEPENDENCIES. * DEPENDENCIES: libiconv is needed again on macOS 14. Mention win-iconv as an alternative. --- diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES index 6ebdfafd9..202bb3e74 100644 --- a/DEPENDENCIES +++ b/DEPENDENCIES @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The following packages should be installed before GNU gettext is installed (runtime dependencies that are also build dependencies): * GNU libiconv - + Not needed on systems with glibc, on macOS, and NetBSD. + + Not needed on systems with glibc and on NetBSD. But highly recommended on all other systems. Needed for character set conversion of PO files from/to Unicode and for the iconv_ostream class of libtextstyle. @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ The following packages should be installed before GNU gettext is installed - Other: https://repology.org/project/libiconv/versions + If it is installed in a nonstandard directory, pass the option --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR to 'configure'. + + On mingw, a slim alternative is the 'win-iconv' package version 0.0.8 + from https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv . * GNU ncurses (preferred) or libtermcap (discouraged) or a curses library (legacy).