Xcode 3.1 should work.

If you run "which iconv" from a Terminal window, what is the output?

If you run "iconv --version", what is the output?

Do you have Fink or MacPorts installed?

Which version of Mac OS X do you have installed?

Dave


On Thu, 7/3/08, Samuel Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Mark, Hi David
> 
> Your guidance is much appreciated on this issue - thanks!
> 
> I have examined the *copystrings* script file on my
> machine, which  
> happens to be a Ruby script, and the part where the command
> *iconv* is  
> used is shown below:
> 
> # Convert the input file to the output encoding (usually
> UTF-16); the  
> output location is normally in the Resources directory of
> the product.
>      system('iconv --from-code="' +
> OPTIONS[:InputEnc] + '" --to- 
> code="' + OPTIONS[:OutputEnc] + '"
> "' + path + '" > "' +  
> OPTIONS[:OutputDir] + '/' + pathBaseName +
> '"')
>      if $?.termsig then $stderr.puts
> "#{File.basename($0)}: error:  
> iconv terminated with signal #{$?.termsig}" ; exit 1 ;
> end
>      exit $?.exitstatus unless $?.exitstatus == 0
> 
> 
>  From what I can see, I would interpret it as shown below:
> 
> [-f fromcode]  is equivalent to '--from-code="
> ' + OPTIONS[:InputEnc]'
> 
> [-t tocode]  is equivalent to ' "
> --to-code="' + OPTIONS[:OutputEnc] +  
> ' "
> 
> [file ...]  is equivalent to "' + path +
> '" > "' + OPTIONS[:OutputDir]  
> + '/' + pathBaseName + '"')
> 
> 
> Here is the Man pages synopsis:
> 
>         iconv [-c] [-s] [-f encoding] [-t encoding]
> [inputfile ...]
>         iconv -l
> 
> There seems to be some inconsistencies here!   And, I would
> conclude  
> that there is a mis-match in the syntax between them.
> 
> I previously forgot to mention that I had updated my XCode
> tool chain  
> between the time I was able to build and the time that I
> wasn't able  
> to build (i.e. now!).   I had a look at the WebKit pages
> and all it  
> says is that XCode 2.3 or later is required to build.  So I
> would  
> assume that my installation of XCode 3.1 should be okay. 
> But it  
> appears not to be!
> 
> Could it be that XCode 3.1 can't build WebKit?
> 
> So far I have updated my SVN Client, deleted my local
> WebKit trunk  
> (with rm -rf), Installed a brand new copy of the WebKit
> trunk, but the  
> problem still persist!  I'm not able to build on my
> machine.
> 
> I would appreciate any further ideas that you might have
> that would  
> help me to solve this most annoying problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sam
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