Subject: Re: The next release?
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2000 - 12:57:31 CDT
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Yeah,
>
> Linking against our iconv should fix the problem we're seeing. I tried this
> to help Vlad out, but I think that we still linked against RH7's iconv. If
> we change our Makefiles so that we link against our iconv *always*, this
> will probably be fixed at the cost of a slightly larger binary and longer
> comilation time.
While we are at it, we should do this with libpng also, since every time a
new RH release comes out, libpng break abiword. We want abiword to work
out of the box everywhere, and sadly that means carrying our libraries
with us.
>
> Alternatively, we can detect at runtime/compilation time what the byte order
> returned from iconv() is, and swap all of the bytes. This would involve a
> wrapper function around iconv like ABI_iconv(), but I think that this is
> ugly. Then again, if it works, who am I to complain?
Despite this being horribly ugly, I wouldn't be opposed to it if I didn't
think that there would eventually be other problems with iconv.
sam th
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