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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/base.scm30
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 1c4ebbf64f..beb689ea95 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2014 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Manolis Fragkiskos Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
(define-module (gnu packages base)
#:use-module ((guix licenses)
- #:select (gpl3+ lgpl2.0+ public-domain))
+ #:select (gpl3+ lgpl2.0+ lgpl3+ public-domain))
#:use-module (gnu packages)
#:use-module (gnu packages acl)
#:use-module (gnu packages bash)
@@ -936,6 +937,33 @@ reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
and daylight-saving rules.")
(license public-domain)))
+(define-public libiconv
+ (package
+ (name "libiconv")
+ (version "1.14")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/libiconv/libiconv-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "04q6lgl3kglmmhw59igq1n7v3rp1rpkypl366cy1k1yn2znlvckj"))
+ (modules '((guix build utils)))
+ (snippet
+ ;; Work around "declared gets" error on glibc systems (fixed by
+ ;; Gnulib commit 66712c23388e93e5c518ebc8515140fa0c807348.)
+ '(substitute* "srclib/stdio.in.h"
+ (("^#undef gets") "")
+ (("^_GL_WARN_ON_USE \\(gets.*") "")))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (synopsis "Character set conversion library")
+ (description
+ "libiconv provides an implementation of the iconv function for systems
+that lack it. iconv is used to convert between character encodings in a
+program. It supports a wide variety of different encodings.")
+ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/")
+ (license lgpl3+)))
+
(define-public (canonical-package package)
;; Avoid circular dependency by lazily resolving 'commencement'.
(let* ((iface (resolve-interface '(gnu packages commencement)))