Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] autoconf: Add test for OLD_ICONV

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:52:28 +0100

On Wed, 5 December 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> El 5/12/2007, a las 16:45, Jakub Narebski escribió:
> 
> > Update configure.ac (and config.mak.in) to keep up with git
> > development by adding [compile] test whether your library has
> > an old iconv(), where the second (input buffer pointer) parameter
> > is declared with type (const char **) (OLD_ICONV).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > This patch needs checking if it correctly sets OLD_ICONV
> > when needed.  I have checked only that it is not set when
> > with new iconv() declaration.  Could people using Cygwin
> > (and other with OLD_ICONV: Darwin) test it?
> 
> Before applying your patch:
> 
>      CC utf8.o
> utf8.c: In function ‘reencode_string’:
> utf8.c:328: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘iconv’ from incompatible  
> pointer type
>      CC convert.o
> 
> After applying your patch:
> 
>      CC utf8.o
>      CC convert.o

Do I understand correctly that above is excerpt from the output of the 
following sequence of commands before and after this patch applied?

  $ make configure
  $ ./configure [options]
  $ make

Do you have something like below in ./configure output?

  configure: CHECKS for header files
  checking for old iconv()... yes

> This on Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0 (Mac OS X 10.5.1).

Strange... in Makefile there is

  ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
	NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO = YesPlease
	NEEDS_LIBICONV = YesPlease
	OLD_ICONV = UnfortunatelyYes
	NO_STRLCPY = YesPlease
	NO_MEMMEM = YesPlease
  endif

so the uname based guessing should set OLD_ICONV on Darwin...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland