Cygwin GDB won't start or hangs at startup

[marco atzeri]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM Jon Turney  wrote:
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> It seems that gdb wants to run 'iconv -l' to list the available encodings.
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> It looks like perhaps an upstream bug that gdb outputs nothing when
> iconv can't be found (rather than using the default encoding?).

the lack of a backup solution is clearly an upstream bug.
I assume iconv is usually present and only on border case the bug
is evident.

Regards
Marco