Re: Building with libiconv

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.10 00:17 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Thu,  9 August 17:59 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> 
> > It would be real, real nice (for FreeBSD) if this patch would
> incorporate
> > the FreeBSD names as an alternative (or allow alternate names to be
> > substituted).  To avoid the problem that you speak of, FreeBSD has
> renamed
> > the iconv library in question to giconv and iconv_open to libiconv_open
> > (since FreeBSD has three or four different iconv libraries . . . ).
> > 
> > Then I wouldn't have to hack configure.in and used automake.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> nothing to do with the iconv library is simple :(
> 
> With the libiconv install out of the box, it supplies a replacement
> iconv.h which #defines iconv_open() to libiconv_open() etc.  If this
> header is in the compiler's include search path, it overrides the one
> used by libc making it difficult to link without -liconv
> 
> For the BSD case, does iconv.h remain iconv.h or is it giconv.h?
> And just to confirm, the correct ld flag is -lgiconv.
> 
The header is /usr/local/include/giconv.h.  The ld flag is indeed -lgiconv.

> Cheers,
> Brian
> 

jmc