libiconv and iconv() prototype

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Tue Dec 22 21:13:00 GMT 2009


The newlib header for iconv.h was recently fixed to comply with the POSIX 
prototype, but cygwin is still stuck with a bogus const on the second argument 
of iconv().  It's kind of a catch-22 - libiconv configures itself to preserve 
the system's prototype, but on cygwin, the system's prototype comes from 
libiconv, because we do not use newlib's implementation.  So it takes an 
explicit action while building from source in order to properly get a libiconv 
installation to use the correct signature; I think it should be possible with:
 ./configure am_cv_proto_iconv_arg1=

Any chance we can get a new libiconv-1.13-11 build with the updated signature?

-- 
Eric Blake



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