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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Дилян Палаузов" <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1.7.9, libcharset missing from EXTLIBS
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:15:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37gzuvni4.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX45=mr=FMqFF+Pw4KPaDAtvs-ePLbFATpyFA93vSfZatw@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 2012/2/10 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> Дилян Палаузов  <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org> writes:

>>> git 1.7.9 makes use of libcharset and /Makefile contains:
> >>
>>> ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>> endif
>>> ...
>>> and the problem is, that libcharset is not used when linking.  To
>>> solve this, please replace the above extract from /Makefile with
>>>
>>> ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         EXTLIBS += -lcharset
>>> endif
[....]
> I've had some similar (privately sent) bug reports about the i18n
> stuff from someone who built his own Linux distro.
> 
> Basically we make assumptions that certain stuff will be in the C
> library on certain platforms, certain headers go with certain
> libraries etc.
> 
> Evidently none of this can really be relied upon and we'd have to
> probe for each one if we wanted to make it reliable.

Well, there is always *optional* configure.ac to do detection;
"make configure; ./configure <options>" will generate config.mak.autogen
with appropriate options -- we can add autodetection if -lcharset
must be added.

-- 
Jakub Narębski

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-10 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-10  1:29 1.7.9, libcharset missing from EXTLIBS Дилян Палаузов
2012-02-10  2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-10 10:06   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-02-10 10:21     ` Дилян Палаузов
2012-02-10 18:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-10 19:52         ` Dilyan Palauzov
2012-02-10 20:10           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-02-10 20:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-12  0:55           ` Дилян Палаузов
2012-02-12  1:03             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-02-12 10:30             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-12 16:23               ` [PATCH] " Дилян Палаузов
2012-02-10 13:15     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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