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iconv doesn't provide .pc file which breaks detection of libarchive #75
Description
libarchive provides a .pc file to help detection, but it depends on iconv which does not provide a pc file. This causes breakage so that you can use pkg-config to find libarchive
pkg-config libarchive --cflags
Package iconv was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `iconv.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'iconv', required by 'libarchive', not found
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dsschult commentedon Mar 7, 2025
From what I can see, the maintainers of libiconv don't support pkg-config and don't include anything in the src build to provide this. Distros that have one maintain their own patches downstream.
kjmeagher commentedon Mar 25, 2025
This is an issue with the pre-build binaries provided by spack. I started a discussion there: spack/spack#49687