On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:25:03PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > The Makefile tweak NO_ICONV is meant to allow Git to be built without > iconv in case iconv is not installed or is otherwise dysfunctional. > However, NO_ICONV's disabling of iconv is incomplete and can incorrectly > allow "-liconv" to slip into the linker flags when NEEDS_LIBICONV is > defined, which breaks the build when iconv is not installed. > > On some platforms, iconv lives directly in libc, whereas, on others it > resides in libiconv. For the latter case, NEEDS_LIBICONV instructs the > Makefile to add "-liconv" to the linker flags. config.mak.uname > automatically defines NEEDS_LIBICONV for platforms which require it. > The adding of "-liconv" is done unconditionally, despite NO_ICONV. > > Work around this problem by making NO_ICONV take precedence over > NEEDS_LIBICONV. Nicely explained. We have OLD_ICONV, too, which should probably do nothing if NO_ICONV is set. I think that works OK. We end up setting -DOLD_ICONV on the command line, but that's only consider inside "#ifndef NO_ICONV" within the code. > This patch is extra noisy due to the indentation change. Viewing it with > "git diff -w" helps. An alternative to re-indenting would have been to > "undefine NEEDS_LIBICONV", however, 'undefine' was added to GNU make in > 3.82 but MacOS is stuck on 3.81 (from 2006) so 'undefine' was avoided. Yeah, with "-w" it looks pretty obviously correct. -Peff
