Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?

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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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