Subject: Re: commit -- Re: commit: Re: commit: Re: commit: i18n megapatch to AW
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 03:28:42 CDT
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, sam th wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
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> > I think that this can be due to the #inclusion of the wrong <iconv.h> that
> > doesn't declare functions as 'extren "C"' - thus C++ compiler tries to find
> > mangled names and doesn't find them correctly.
> > The sympthoms are:
> > If linker says
> > "undefined reference to 'iconv'" than 'extren "C"' was aroun the declaration
> > of that function.
> > If linker says
> > "undefined reference to 'iconv(iconv_t, const char**, int*, char**, int*)'"
> > than 'extren "C"' was not aroun the declaration of that function.
> > It should be traced which one <iconv.h> is included. Though wv's and
> > libinconv's iconv.h wrap everything inside 'extern "C" {' - so that wrong
> > header file can be only FreeBSD's one.
>
> It was a problem with the FreeBSD header file. I've added some #ifdef's
> that fix the problem for FreeBSD, and if it shows up on other platforms,
> they are easy to add too.
Nice!
> It took about seven hours from Martin's report of trouble before I
> examined it, Vlad posted a possible fix, I coded and committed the fix,
> and the compile works. And we're even on 3 continents. :-)
Granted, you don't go to bed :)
> Thanks, Vlad.
I'm glad to help you.
> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
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Best regards,
-Vlad
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