From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:26:56 GMT Subject: Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean? Message-ID: <200609050126.56423.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060904231609.GA6855@ferdyx.org> On Tue, Sep 05 2006 at 01:16, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:08:57AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> To add autoconf support for checking if NO_ICONV has to be defined >> (Define NO_ICONV if your libc does not properly support iconv.) >> one needs to know what does "properly support iconv" mean. >> >> The commit message of a commit which introduced this compilation >> variable (commit b6e56eca8a4eb74a86e9f2d99aa480c665458aa7) tells: >> >> Systems using some uClibc versions do not properly support >> iconv stuff. >> >> At what exactly iconv fail? What should the test to put in >> configure.ac check? > > As far as I know, iconv stuff is not supported on uClibc. Thats the > reason I sent the patch. Gentoo bug #115826 [1]. > > You should probably set it if you are building for uClibc. Not sure > how you'd test that in configure.ac though. > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115826 Gaah, I have some problems accessing the Gentoo bug database. Is the problem that iconv does not exist in libc, or it exist but misbehaves? -- Jakub Narebski Poland