Re: [Texmacs-dev] iconv support on cygwin

[David Allouche]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:13:52AM +0100, Andreas Seidl wrote:
> 
> > 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.

You could try generating configure with a recent autoconf. It seems
Joris is working on two workstations, one of which has an hopelessly
outdated version of autoconf.

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

I gave you the reference to the libxml thread so you could find insight
to help you fix the problem.

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