Testing whether or not the build platform has a working iconv

[Richard Sharpe]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm, none of those seem to be relevant here. I am simply wanting to clean 
up the selection of iconv etc. 

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com