From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean? Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:26:56 +0200 Message-ID: <200609050126.56423.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200609050108.57695.jnareb@gmail.com> <20060904231609.GA6855@ferdyx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 05 01:27:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKNq7-00054A-Ii for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:26:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965030AbWIDX0s (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:26:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965032AbWIDX0s (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:26:48 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:10596 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965030AbWIDX0r (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:26:47 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1115605nfa for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:26:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=cLfbJtCRe62r1ViqTwBRFUF5WGaYOIprDJnTndwEPQorvWu11/ybaAyA0FFUKFmlXhKiUJpOb9LrEnEFT7z63u9EDfj1BpwLoO8wB6OxsUm/9qBmgrlfjIk1TT71eSkSgOHoUUlhEHl19sbFokkWySwPd7B4wSCtKYaUOvG6zyM= Received: by 10.49.8.15 with SMTP id l15mr7118218nfi; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-81-190-21-28.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.21.28]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id r34sm9938085nfc.2006.09.04.16.26.45; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:26:46 -0700 (PDT) To: "Fernando J. Pereda" , git@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20060904231609.GA6855@ferdyx.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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