Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >> on openSUSE for Leap 16.0 on x86_64 [1] and aarch64 [2].
> >>
> >> Using coreutils-9.5 (which has gnulib 259829e78), glibc-2.40.
> >> ...
> 97 /* Test whether the utf8_to_local converter is available at
> all. */
> 98 if (!is_utf8)
> 99 {
> 100 #if HAVE_ICONV
> 101 if (utf8_to_local == (iconv_t)(-1)) {
> 102 fprintf (stderr, "iconv function not usable: '%s'\n",
> callback_arg);
> 103 return failure (code, N_("iconv function not usable"),
> callback_arg); }
> 104 #else
> 105 fprintf (stderr, "iconv function not available: '%s'\n",
> callback_arg);
> 106 return failure (code, N_("iconv function not available"),
> callback_arg);
> 107 #endif
> 108 }
>
> We're running into "iconv function not available" (line 105) there.
> Compressed 'config.log' attached.
In this log, I see:
configure:23922: checking for working iconv
configure:24066: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wall -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -Werror=return-type
-flto=auto -g -flto=auto conftest.c >&5
configure:24066: $? = 0
configure:24066: ./conftest
configure:24066: $? = 16
configure: program exited with status 16
and status 16 means that there is no EUC-JP converter.
This is now the second distro I hear of, that ships glibc without any loadable
iconv converters by default.
I have therefore reported
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32437
in the hope that glibc makes it easier to distros to ship a reasonable set
of iconv converters.
Bruno
