From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Fernando J. Pereda" Subject: Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean? Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:16:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20060904231609.GA6855@ferdyx.org> References: <200609050108.57695.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 05 01:18:14 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 1GKNhi-00039V-FD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:18:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965028AbWIDXQm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:16:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965033AbWIDXQe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:16:34 -0400 Received: from 170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([213.96.222.170]:4745 "EHLO smtp.ferdyx.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965028AbWIDXQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:16:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801E58D38F; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08917-06; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:15:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from posidon.ferdyx.org (posidon.ferdyx.org [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A037E8D317; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:15:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by posidon.ferdyx.org (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) ferdy@gentoo.org; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 01:16:10 +0200 (CEST) To: Jakub Narebski Mail-Followup-To: "Fernando J. Pereda" , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609050108.57695.jnareb@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > The commit message of a commit which introduced this compilation=20 > variable (commit b6e56eca8a4eb74a86e9f2d99aa480c665458aa7) tells: >=20 > Systems using some uClibc versions do not properly support > iconv stuff. >=20 > At what exactly iconv fail? What should the test to put in configure.ac= =20 > 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. - ferdy [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D115826 --=20 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimart=EDn Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git) 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4 --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE/LO5CkhbDGC9KNQRAr9NAJ0SQcvbYoZw9NB23Put1GtASAqhNwCgkv4T Q5sMiRsmYfCBbrMDX1l/O1o= =d/Gs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--