On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:33:28PM -0500, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > ICONV_CONST is a horrible hack that I created to fix this problem of
> > incompatible iconv() prototypes. What you need to do is find where
> > ICONV_CONST is defined, and add something like this:
> >
> > #ifdef __MAC_OS__ // or whatever your platform defines
> > #define ICONV_CONST const
> > #endif
> >
> > That should fix the problem.
> >
> > This is a hacked-up way to get around our lack of configure, which
> > shold evetually be remedied (once my computer works again).
>
> With the attached patch (thanks Hubert for asking about that!!!) I can
> finally build abiword on Yellow Dog Linux (PPC) using the Red Hat rawhide
> spec. The final reason I used the Red Hat spec rather than the abisource spec
> is because the RH one is fully able to be built as a user, while the abisource
> one wants to install to your running system (not very polite).
>
> In the future it would be very helpful to folks like me to have an
> AbiSource-supplied SRPM that is known to build correctly.
>
> At any rate, I look forward to configure (never thought I'd hear myself say
> that). Great work on the word processor, and good luck on the build system! :)
One question: is Yellow Dog the only Linux PPC implementation? More
importantly, are any others likely to have a different iconv()
prototype?
>
> -Hollis
>
> P.S. Is it "abiWORD" or "abiSUITE"? A lot of confusion there.. RH ships
> abiword, you guys build abisuite...
Well, it's really just AbiWord. Our build scripts should probably be
fixed on this point (at least until there is a suite).
sam th
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