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Re: [PATCH] PR exp/9103


> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:25:15 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > * What to do about hosts without an iconv implementation.  There are
> >   three choices:
> > 
> >   1. Require libiconv on such hosts
> >   2. Like #1, but provide a simple way to drop libiconv into the src
> >      tree.
> >   3. Write a phony iconv-alike that only handles host charset ==
> >      target charset, probably also providing "gdb_wchar_t" and various
> >      other macros and whatnot to make it all work.
> 
> I am not completely opposed to (1).

But I am; OpenBSD doesn't have iconv.

Solution (3) is totally acceptable though, and (2) should be fine too.


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