From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 06:11:20 EDT
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > It is meant to, but I have spent about an hour
> > yeasterday on it, and
> > did not succeed. Also, GLib 2.0 itself has couple of
> > external
> > dependences, iconv, and some other GNU library, name
> > of which I
> > do not remember of the top of my head.
>
> Which iconv? The many iconv implementations out there
> are notoriously incompatible. I wonder if they
> require libiconv or the system iconv, and I wonder if
> this will be a problem for us. If we end up with
> potentially 2 iconvs being used by different bits of
> AbiWord that would not be nice.
glib-2.0 depends on iconv and GNU gettext. As iconv implementations go,
g_iconv is as ambiguous as they come. It's a pure wrapper in the current
glib-2.0 source, so chances are people with glib-2.0 will be using the
system iconv implementation, or GNU libiconv if that's not present.
I'm not sure about glib-2.0.1, but earlier glib configures get very
confused if there's no system iconv, so... pain!!! (/me scowls at glib
deelopers.) Not insurmountable, but.
Anyway, if we're going to be using glib with all platforms - and I do hope
we do - then we should be using glib's g_iconv rather than iconv directly.
Of course, wv which uses iconv should be asked to use g_iconv as well.
Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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