This bug has been discovered in x86 too.

On Friday 03 May 2002 20:28, you wrote:
> So, gnome-extra/gal-0.19 fails to merge due to ./configure failing with :
>
> [ ... ]
> checking for catalogs to be installed...  az ca cs da de en_GB es fi fr gl
> hu it ja ko lt nn no pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sv ta tr uk zh_TW
> sed: can't read ./intl/po2tbl.sed.in: No such file or directory
> checking for libxml (aka gnome-xml) libraries 1.8.8 <= version < 2.0.0...
> found
> checking for iconv in -liconv... no
> checking for iconv... yes
> checking for gnu_get_libc_version... yes
> checking if iconv() handles UTF-8... no
> configure: error: You need to install a working iconv implementation, such
> as http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
> [ ... ]
>
> in config.log
>
> #include <string.h>
> #ifdef HAVE_GNU_GET_LIBC_VERSION
> #include <gnu/libc-version.h>
> #endif
>
> int main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
> 	const char *jp = "\x1B\x24\x42\x46\x7C\x4B\x5C\x38\x6C";
> 	const char *utf8 = "\xE6\x97\xA5\xE6\x9C\xAC\xE8\xAA\x9E";
> 	char *transbuf = malloc (10), *trans = transbuf;
> 	iconv_t cd;
> 	size_t jp_len = strlen (jp), utf8_len = 10;
> 	size_t utf8_real_len = strlen (utf8);
>
> #ifdef HAVE_GNU_GET_LIBC_VERSION
> 	/* glibc 2.1.2's iconv is broken in hard to test ways. */
> 	if (!strcmp (gnu_get_libc_version (), "2.1.2"))
> 		exit (1);
> #endif
>
> 	cd = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "ISO-2022-JP");
> 	if (!cd)
> 		exit (1);
> 	if (iconv (cd, &jp, &jp_len, &trans, &utf8_len) == -1 || jp_len != 0)
> 		exit (1);
> 	if (memcmp (utf8, transbuf, utf8_real_len) != 0)
> 		exit (1);
>
> 	exit (0);
> }
>
> So at first I was looking into UTF-8 problems, but it appears, that since
> 	% iconv -l
> produces 'UTF-8', BUT NOT 'ISO-2022-JP' that the lack of iconv charset
> support for JP specifically, but many others actually, is at issue.
>
> The tricky bit is that % iconv -l on my x86 box produces quite a lot of
> output -- maybe 4 times.  Of course, the glibc ebuilds are identical --
> with the exception that my x86 glibc was built during a system upgrade and
> not build time.
>
> So to test a simple case, could someone who has rebuilt glibc via a portage
> upgrade post their output from % iconv -l?
>
> thx.
> Gontran
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