Testing whether or not the build platform has a working iconv
Alexander Bokovoy
a.bokovoy at sam-solutions.net
Sun Jun 15 12:04:56 GMT 2003
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:13:25PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> So,
>
> I have some changes that allow configure to correctly find the include
> file and library for iconv.
>
> However, I notice that the test to see if we have a working iconv, there
> are two problems:
>
> 1. It assumes that iconv uses the standard include files and library
> names.
>
> 2. It tests for ASCII to UCS-2LE as a conversion type, which Samba handles
> internally, and iconv-2.0_3 on FreeBSD and the version of iconv on
> Slowaris does not seem to handle these. A better test would be for CP850
> to UCS-2LE, I think.
>
> Any observations?
Yes, look at our discussion for codeset issues on non-Linux platform in
past few days.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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