Automake configuration with '--with-included-iconv'

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Wed Nov 18 13:43:01 UTC 2020


On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:58:14AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 17/11/2020 à 23:16, Kornel Benko a écrit :
> >   $ ./autogen.sh
> >   $ cd bindir
> >   $ srcdir/configure ... --with-included-iconv ...
> >   ...
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/Makefile
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/boost/Makefile
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/dtl/Makefile
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/hunspell/Makefile
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/mythes/Makefile
> > config.status: creating 3rdparty/libiconv/Makefile
> > config.status: error: cannot find input file: `3rdparty/libiconv/1.14/include/iconv.h.in'
> > 
> > In fact, it should be '1.15' directory.
> > 
> > Committed.
> > 
> > But even now, the compilation fails. Plenty of warnings and errors while
> > parsing 3rdparty/libiconv/1.15/lib/*.h
> 
> I think it is only useful for compiling with mingw32, but my memory is
> fuzzy.
> 
> Removing it would be a good option otherwise.

I think we use it for converting characters between encodings? I don't
know anything about it, I just know that it has yelled at me before with
messages like the following:

  https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11865

Scott
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