Re: t3900 failure on macOS, iconv(3) broken?

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Dec 12, 2025, 10:40 UTC
Message-ID: <422eb238-5c75-4629-86d4-1a3c1ba2521c@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <53690064-1c98-40e9-8b9a-7ba6bee63703@web.de>

On 12/8/25 11:59 PM, René Scharfe wrote:

> 
> I only noticed now because I used to compile with NO_ICONV for some
> reason.

Nope, NO_ICONV does not work on macOS because compat/precompose_utf8.c references reencode_string_iconv() and there's no (easy) way to disable PRECOMPOSE_UNICODE. I actually used ICONVDIR before, had forgotten about it, got confused about it after deleting my config.mak and my backup copy didn't set ICONVDIR, either. Odd. Anyway, just wanted to correct the false impression that compiling with NO_ICONV on macOS would be possible without source changes.

René

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