From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:31:13 GMT
Subject: Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
Message-ID: <7v4pvnky4e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200609050126.56423.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

In small configurations that do not care about i18n, it is often
done to give iconv routines that is noop/ident in order to make
the programs compile and run.