Hello,

please consider the patch below as fix for the problem.  It checks if 
locale_charset is not in libiconv, but in libcharset and in this case 
appends -lcharset to EXTLIBS.

Със здраве
   Дилян

diff -u git-1.7.9.orig/config.mak.in git-1.7.9/config.mak.in
--- git-1.7.9.orig/config.mak.in        2012-01-27 20:51:04.000000000 +0000
+++ git-1.7.9/config.mak.in     2012-02-12 00:52:41.457968080 +0000
@@ -74,3 +74,4 @@
  NO_PTHREADS=@NO_PTHREADS@
  PTHREAD_CFLAGS=@PTHREAD_CFLAGS@
  PTHREAD_LIBS=@PTHREAD_LIBS@
+LINK_CHARSET=@LINK_CHARSET@
diff -u git-1.7.9.orig/configure.ac git-1.7.9/configure.ac
--- git-1.7.9.orig/configure.ac 2012-01-27 20:51:04.000000000 +0000
+++ git-1.7.9/configure.ac      2012-02-12 00:44:29.222967868 +0000
@@ -836,6 +836,18 @@
  [HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=YesPlease],
  [HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=])
  AC_SUBST(HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H)
+# Define LINK_LIBCHARSET if libiconv does not export the locale_charset 
symbol
+# and liblibcharset does
+LINK_CHARSET=
+AC_CHECK_LIB([iconv], [locale_charset],
+       [],
+       [AC_CHECK_LIB([charset], [locale_charset],
+                     [LINK_CHARSET=Yes])
+       ]
+)
+AC_SUBST(LINK_CHARSET)
+
+
  #
  # Define NO_STRCASESTR if you don't have strcasestr.
  GIT_CHECK_FUNC(strcasestr,
diff -u git-1.7.9.orig/Makefile git-1.7.9/Makefile
--- git-1.7.9.orig/Makefile     2012-01-27 20:51:04.000000000 +0000
+++ git-1.7.9/Makefile  2012-02-12 00:35:23.982967555 +0000
@@ -1692,6 +1692,9 @@

  ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
         BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
+ifdef LINK_CHARSET
+       EXTLIBS += -lcharset
+endif
  endif

  ifdef HAVE_DEV_TTY

On 10.02.2012 21:25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  writes:
>
>> Дилян Палаузов<dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>  writes:
>>
>>>>> What I am wondering is there are systems that need to include the header,
>>>>> but locale_charset() does not live in /lib/libcharset.a, in which case we
>>>>> cannot make HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H imply use of -lcharset.
>>>
>>> I do not understand this.  If you want to use a function from
>>> libcharset, you have to use both #include<libcharset.h>  and
>>> -lcharset.
>>
>> You are mistaken.
>>
>> The only constraint is that you have to "#include<libcharset.h>" and need
>> to link with the library that has locale_charset() defined.
>
> I think the follow-ups in this thread already demonstrated why it is an
> insufficient solution to make HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H imply -lcharset.
>
> We would instead need:
>
> 	ifeq ($(uname_S),MyHomeBrewLinux)
>          	HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H = YesPlease
>                  EXTLIBS += -lcharset
> 	endif
>
> or
>
> 	# Define NEEDS_CHARSETLIB if you use HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H and
>          # need to link with -lcharset
> 	NEEDS_CHARSETLIB =
>
> 	ifeq ($(uname_S),MyHomeBrewLinux)
>          	HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H = YesPlease
> 		NEEDS_CHARSETLIB = YesPlease
> 	endif
>
> 	ifdef NEEDS_CHARSETLIB
>          	EXTLIBS += -lcharset
> 	endif
>
> or something like that, I guess.
>