* Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
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@ 2006-09-04 23:16 ` Fernando J. Pereda
2006-09-04 23:26 ` Jakub Narebski
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From: Fernando J. Pereda @ 2006-09-04 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jakub Narebski; +Cc: git
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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.
- ferdy
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115826
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Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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* Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
2006-09-04 23:16 ` What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean? Fernando J. Pereda
@ 2006-09-04 23:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-04 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-04 23:41 ` Fernando J. Pereda
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From: Jakub Narebski @ 2006-09-04 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fernando J. Pereda, git
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?
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Jakub Narebski
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* Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
2006-09-04 23:26 ` Jakub Narebski
@ 2006-09-04 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-04 23:41 ` Fernando J. Pereda
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2006-09-04 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jakub Narebski; +Cc: git
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.
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* Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
2006-09-04 23:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-04 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2006-09-04 23:41 ` Fernando J. Pereda
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Fernando J. Pereda @ 2006-09-04 23:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jakub Narebski; +Cc: git
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:26:56AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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?
Quoting Mike Frysinger:
iconv is part of uClibc itself but is disabled by default since it isnt
quite stable yet ... so yes, trying to use the iconv package wont work
That was on 2005-12-17 so I don't know what's the status now.
- ferdy
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Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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