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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@×××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Evolution Pilot Conduit
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:19:59
Message-Id: 1010362878.951.8.camel@fluffy
1 mån 2002-01-07 klockan 00.53 skrev David A. Desrosiers:
2 >
3 > > As I said, it _do_ find iconv (or so says the configure-script) but it
4 > > doesn't set it in the pi-config.h
5 >
6 > Ok, this is a slightly different issue then. Noted.
7 >
8 > > Yes, it might be a problem either in 0.9.6 (since it's not a supported
9 > > release) or in Gentoo Linux.
10 >
11 > 0.9.6 is not a release at all, unsupported or not. The versions in
12 > the official cvs jumped from 0.9.5 to 0.10.1, there was never a 0.9.6,
13 > unless someone made a tarball from the 0.9.5 cvs sources, changed the
14 > version to make it appear that there was a "newer" release, and let it out
15 > into the wild.
16
17 Which I suppose is what happend:
18 http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/download/tarballs/pilot-link-0.9.6.tar.gz
19
20 > > So if you try to cool down a bit I'll try to figure out what was going
21 > > wrong (might very well be 0.9.6 since I haven't seen these problems
22 > > before).
23 >
24 > I would suggest sticking with official releases, because in
25 > unofficial rogue versions, you never know what you'll find, or what has been
26 > changed.
27
28 Ok, I've (re)-tracked down the problem. And the error is in 0.9.6
29 (worked fine with 0.9.5), sorry to made it look like it was your fault
30 with it was the one that released 0.9.6 (which very much sounds like an
31 official newer release than 0.9.6).
32
33 configure:7065: checking for gnu_get_libc_version
34 configure:7102: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lm >&5
35 configure:7105: $? = 0
36 configure:7108: test -s conftest
37 configure:7111: $? = 0
38 configure:7121: result: yes
39 configure:7131: checking if system iconv handles CP1252
40 configure:7173: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
41 configure: In function `main':
42 configure:7155: warning: passing arg 2 of `iconv' from incompatible
43 pointer typeconfigure: At top level:
44 configure:7164: redefinition of `main'
45 configure:7144: `main' previously defined here
46 configure: In function `main':
47 configure:7164: number of arguments doesn't match prototype
48 configure:7144: prototype declaration
49 configure:7165: `echo' undeclared (first use in this function)
50 configure:7165: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
51 configure:7165: for each function it appears in.)
52 configure:7165: parse error before string constant
53 configure:7166: `have_iconv' undeclared (first use in this function)
54 configure:7167: `yes' undeclared (first use in this function)
55
56 When will you guys release 0.10.1?
57
58 Regards,
59 Mikael Hallendal
60
61 --
62 Mikael Hallendal
63 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
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