[csw-maintainers] Another cyclic dependency

[Chad Harp]

An excerpt from the inconv docs:

After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is recommended to 
recompile and reinstall GNU gettext, so that it can take advantage of 
libiconv.

On systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be 
internationalized only if GNU gettext has been built and installed 
before GNU libiconv. This means that the first time GNU libiconv is 
installed, we have a circular dependency between the GNU libiconv and 
GNU gettext packages, which can be resolved by building and installing 
either

     * first libiconv, then gettext, then libiconv again,

or (on systems supporting shared libraries, excluding AIX)

     * first gettext, then libiconv, then gettext again.



What a mess, so it seems it's intended and we have to live with it.  Can 
the install utils support co-dependent packages and James suggested?

James Lee wrote:
> On 01/04/09, 14:18:35, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote regarding 
> [csw-maintainers] Another cyclic dependency:
> 
> 
>>From CSWggettextrt, needs libiconv which is in CSWiconv:
> 
> $ ldd /opt/csw/bin/ggettext
>         libintl.so.8 =>  /opt/csw/lib/libintl.so.8
>         libsec.so.1 =>   /lib/libsec.so.1
>         libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
>         libiconv.so.2 =>         /opt/csw/lib/libiconv.so.2
>         libavl.so.1 =>   /lib/libavl.so.1
>         libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
> 
> 
> 
>>From CSWiconv, needs libintl which is in CSWggettextrt:
> 
> $ ldd /opt/csw/bin/iconv
>         libiconv.so.2 =>         /opt/csw/lib/i386/libiconv.so.2
>         libintl.so.3 =>  /opt/csw/lib/i386/libintl.so.3
>         libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
>         libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
> 
> 
> Shouldn't the installer be tolerant of dependancy loops and just 
> install both when either is requested?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> James.
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