On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:17:00AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > > >Dumb question - why a spec file? What platform do you want to run this > >on which doesn't have a native iconv()? You only need apr-iconv on > >platforms which don't have an iconv() at all. > > Ok, I was not aware of that. > > Which platforms require iconv()? In other words, are there any Unix-like > platforms out there (Solaris, Darwin, any others?) that might support > RPM _and_ require iconv()?
Old Unixes and non-Unixes don't have iconv(), so yes, there is certainly a set of platforms on which RPM will build but there is no native iconv(). It's not a big deal, just so long as you're aware that you probably don't *need* apr-iconv, and it's probably better to use the native iconv() where available. Regards, joe
