[OE-core] [PATCH] qt4: add eglibc-gconv-utf-16 to QtCore RRECOMMENDS when using glibc

Jonathan Liu net147 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 13:19:53 UTC 2013


This fixes the following warnings when running Qt applications:
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed

Qt's QString class stores strings internally using UTF-16 encoding.
The UTF-16 iconv module is needed to convert between the system's local
8-bit representation and QString's UTF-16 encoding.

For example, the following functions would be affected:
QString::fromLocal8Bit(...)
QString::toLocal8Bit(...)

If the UTF-16 iconv module couldn't be loaded, it would use Latin-1
encoding instead of the system's encoding for conversion.

[YOCTO #349]

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
---
 meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
index 828e30a..ebe0ea5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ FILES_${QT_BASE_NAME}-demos-doc = "${docdir}/${QT_DIR_NAME}/qch/qt.qch"
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${LIB_PACKAGES} ${OTHER_PACKAGES}"
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dev = "${DEV_PACKAGES}"
 RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg = "${DBG_PACKAGES}"
+RRECOMMENDS_${QT_BASE_LIB}core4_append_libc-glibc = " eglibc-gconv-utf-16"
 RRECOMMENDS_${QT_BASE_NAME}-demos += " \
             ${QT_BASE_NAME}-examples \
             ${QT_BASE_NAME}-plugin-sqldriver-sqlite \
-- 
1.8.3




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