Re: [gentoo-embedded] [Fwd: building glib w/o libiconv/iconv]

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Ned Ludd wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 01:15, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, David Bryson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:51:19PM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > > Can somebody please review this. I've got my hands full right now.
> > > > If it works, it would solve a few problems with some needed/desired
> > > > software under uClibc environments more so as it seems glib1 has been
> > > > depreciated @ gentoo.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure myself about the free() in the iconv_close() function
> > > > without looking at the inner workings of glib2.
> > > >
> > > > thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > >
> > > PSM + Solar + All
> > > I applied the patch and tried to compile glib-2.4.6 with my chroot of
> > > spanky's stage3-x86-uclibc-20040909 snapshot.
> > >
> > > Still died with:
> > > configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or
> > > libiconv
>
> I worked around that one by changing the AC_MSG_ERROR to AC_MSG_RESULT
> so it would echo vs exit. Same for gettext. And ran autoconf to make a
> new configure script. glib2 did not seem to respect it but I enabled
> enabled --with-libiconv=no. This was still not enough as gconvert.c was
> still unconditionally including iconv.h. touching a blank iconv.h in
> glib-2.6.7/glib/iconv.h did the trick and allowed it to compile for the
> first time. I ended up wrapping an #ifdef around the include file vs
> using touch.
>
> http://oc12.net/~solar/glib-2.4.6-config.patch
> http://oc12.net/~solar/glib-2.4.6-no_iconv.patch (updated psm version)
> http://oc12.net/~solar/glib-2.4.6.ebuild
>
> I'm still not sure about that free() in the iconv_close() function.
> Don't know if/where memory is being allocated in the first place for the
> iconv_t struct. Either we will be trying to free invalid pointers or we
> wont.

Look at the original iconv_close() function, I have taken it from there (I 
think from libiconv)

Peter

>
> >
> > the patch is not enough, you have to disable gettext and [lib]iconv test
> > results too in configure. I am not interested if the patch applies and
> > builds (it does already for me), I am interested if the dummy functions
> > are written correctly.
> > If though interested, I can send you the full patch to allow building on
> > uclibc.
> >
> > Thanks Peter
> >
>

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