Re: [Texmacs-dev] iconv support on cygwin

[Andreas Seidl]

> FYI, the configure script for the detection of iconv was mostly copied
> from libxml. The relevant thread in their mailing list archive is highly
> informative, read it to the end, it covers many bad solutions.
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-July/msg00002.html

> As far as I can remember, cygwin was one of those systems where iconv
> was not in libc but required libiconv as a special package.

I have installed libiconv and filed it under "requirements" for the cygwin
package. Nonetheless, the script does not find it. So there is need for an
adjustment.

On my laptop I have 1.0.2.10 installed, which was compiled with gcc-3.2.  
Here import/export of Html works, so iconv support seems to be included.
So there is the question whether recent changes to the configure script or
my changing to gcc-3.3 or both have triggered this problem.

> If it were only me, missing iconv would cause ./configure to fail. But
> Joris insisted that external libraries (read, anything but libc and
> xlib) be "optional", thus the current behaviour.

This policy might be good for exotic platforms. But it seems to have the
effect that problems go unnoticed, and later produce more work, questions
and annoyances than getting it right from the beginning.

> I guess one could somewhat handle UTF8 and ISO-8859-1 in the HTML parser
> if that would turn out to be really needed. But that was extra trouble I
> did not need at the time.

Well, the library *is* available on cygwin, it just has to be detected and 
used correctly. 

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Best Regards,
Andreas Seidl
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