Hi Ken, > > You're thinking those without it, e.g. Andy, could easily get iconv > > with a package install? > > Yeah ... I am kind of surprised OpenBSD doesn't ship with iconv
If I'm looking in the right place, http://openports.se/converters/libiconv suggests it's no longer a package but a LIB_DEPENDS pulls it in. > Like I said, it's part of POSIX so I think requiring it is perfectly > reasonable. True, we've gone full POSIX in other ways, e.g. C99. > Maybe he does have it and our autoconf tests are wrong; if that's the > case we should spend our energy on fixing that. Yep. > > I'm doing that. I ./configure'd like normal and then s/1/0/ in > > Makefile and config.h for HAVE_ICONV. All went well with `make > > all', one test was skipped with `make check', but one test failed in > > test/mhshow/test-charset, and I'm not sure why. > > I think this just bolsters my arguments :-) Not really, that was more a request for help from anyone that might recall that area. That it produces the extra byte might be unconnected to the HAVE_ICONV setting. Perhaps the commit changed the test to cope with 10 and 11 simply to match observations. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers