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Re: Fwd: Missing utf8.h
- From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:37:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Missing utf8.h
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Jim Van Sciver wrote:
> Thank you Ken and Marco. My mistake was in thinking utf8.h was a
> system include file that I had not yet installed. It was actually
> part of the third party package. My bad. Your advice did lead me to
> the problem.
>
> More than you want to know but the reason why the include file was not
> being found was because the package Makefile uses uname command output
> to set -I paths. The uname output was checked for the strings Linux
> and Darwin but there was no check for CYGWIN_NT-6.1 nor an error if
> the two expected values were not found. Poor Makefile scripting.
Don't forget to complain to the maintainers of that third-party package :)
Csaba
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