Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2012/2/10 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html