Re: [xml] Using libiconv

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:13:25AM -0500, xml thewrittenword com wrote:
> Then how about we add --with-iconv=DIR which allows you to specify the
> parent include/lib directory for iconv? All this would really do is
> add DIR/include to $CPPFLAGS and DIR/lib to $LDFLAGS.

  Albert, this sounds the Right Way (TM), would you be kind enough
to provide such a patch ?

> BTW, this would mimic how --with-zlib works. Solaris 8/SPARC has libz
> in /usr/lib and zlib.h and zconf.h in /usr/include. We have our own
> zlib in /opt somewhere. We use --with-zlib=/opt/zlib to use *our* zlib
> which completely *replaces* the system zlib. Same situation as your
> libiconv problem. Note though that we could just have well have solved
> our problem by setting CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS but I added the
> --with-zlib[=DIR] option to help us out. Something similar should be
> done for you.

  yep,

Daniel

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