I don't see why libiconv is needed on Cygwin.
One can install libiconv on Cygwin system-wide, using the Cygwin
installer.


On Mar 22, 5:50 am, Florent Hivert <florent.hiv...@univ-rouen.fr>
wrote:
>       Hi There,
>
> Thanks to David, the issues #8567 "Change iconv so it builds on Cygwin and
> Solaris only" seems to have a fix, but before giving positive review, I think
> it should be tested on Cygwin...
>
> > I think I owe everyone an explanation why the Sage 4.3.4 release is
> > broken for Fedora and openSUSE. Before I announce a release, whether
> > it be an alpha release or an rc, I would build and long doctest it on
> > the following machines:
>
> > * sage.math: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, 24 cores, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7460 @
> > 2.66GHz, 132 GB RAM, GCC 4.2.4
>
> > * bsd.math: Mac OS X 10.6.2, 4 cores, Intel Xeon @ 2.66 GHz, 8 GB RAM, GCC 
> > 4.2.1
>
> > * winxp1 (Cygwin virtual machine on boxen.math): CYGWIN_NT-5.1, 1
> > core, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X7460 @ 2.66GHz, 2 GB RAM, GCC 4.3.4
>
> If anyone have access to this machine (or any Cygwin), can you test that
> sage-4.3.4 with iconv-1.31.1.spkg replaced by
>      http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/iconv/iconv-1.13.1.p0.spkg
> correctly builds and set up a positive review. If it's ok, what about
> re-releasing sage with this fix after that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Florent

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