On Monday 22 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a GNU+Linux user and I have tried to use FreeSBIE to port a
> program of mine to FreeBSD.
> First of all: Thank you! Nearly all I needed was there, and I could
> get it going.
>
> But I came across one thing, which I think is a misconfiguration on
> the system. It's not a real problem, but an inconvenience.
>
> SDL has an own implementation for iconv. It can be configured to be
> a wrapper around the systems iconv implementation, or it has a weak
> fallback system.
>
> There is an iconv implementation in FreeSBIE, but SDL is configured
> not to use it.
>
> /usr/local/include/SDL/SDL_config.h:
> It defines HAVE_ICONV_H, but HAVE_ICONV is undefined.
>
> There are those different symbols, because there might be systems,
> which have the iconv functions, but not in iconv.h. But including
> iconv.h without actually using it, doesn't make much sense, I
> think.
>
> I don't use the real FreeBSD. How is it there?
>
> --
> AKFoerster

In stock FreeBSD there is a system iconv.h in /usr/include/sys which 
is used by the kernel.  Userland iconv.h is generally provided by the 
GNU libiconv implimentation, installed from ports/packages in 
to /usr/local/include

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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