Subject: Re: 1.7.9, libcharset missing from EXTLIBS

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:15:34 -0800 (PST)

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:
> 2012/2/10 Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>:
>> Дилян Палаузов  <[email-masked]> writes:

>>> git 1.7.9 makes use of libcharset and /Makefile contains:
> >>
>>> ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>> endif
>>> ...
>>> and the problem is, that libcharset is not used when linking.  To
>>> solve this, please replace the above extract from /Makefile with
>>>
>>> ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
>>>         EXTLIBS += -lcharset
>>> endif
[....]
> I've had some similar (privately sent) bug reports about the i18n
> stuff from someone who built his own Linux distro.
> 
> Basically we make assumptions that certain stuff will be in the C
> library on certain platforms, certain headers go with certain
> libraries etc.
> 
> Evidently none of this can really be relied upon and we'd have to
> probe for each one if we wanted to make it reliable.

Well, there is always *optional* configure.ac to do detection;
"make configure; ./configure <options>" will generate config.mak.autogen
with appropriate options -- we can add autodetection if -lcharset
must be added.

-- 
Jakub Narębski