Re: Patch for iconv-impaired systems

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> recently I tried to compile GLib on aome platform (I forgot which) without
> iconv. I will commit the following patch, if noone objects:
> 
> Now g_convert_* just throws an error, if called on a platfrom without iconv.
> That makes GLib at least compile. It might however be a good idea to at least
> implement some basic and often wanted conversions explicity on such platforms
> later. 
> 
> The guard for including iconv.h is HAVE_ICONV and not HAVE_ICONV_H, because I
> hope, that UNIX has learned its leassons and now standardize the header names
> as well, i.e. "iconv exists iff iconv.h exists and has the prototype".
> 
> The patch is attached.

I was under the impression that an iconv implementation was requirement
now.  This could either be the system iconv or a third party one such as
libiconv.

James.