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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.