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  • From: "ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] Connection Problem iconv
  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:48:08 +0100

>
> Tom <tomaw AT gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi JKL,
> >
> > here is the full config.log.
> > Hope you find some Hints there.
> > Please tell me if you need more Informations.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
>
> I think I don't know enough to help you, Tom.
>
> The config.log shows that the compiler found iconv(3) among
> your .h files,
> and successfully compiled a test program. It doesn't show
> which library
> it used, or what that library's capabilities are. Even if it
> did, I'm not
> sure that would reveal much.
>
> The first question is, Is your system correctly configured.
> Is there only
> one libiconv installed, and is it GNU's (as it should be, on
> a Linux box)?
> A little work with find(1) and ident(1) should answer that.
>
> If there's more than one library, fooling around with gcc's --print
> options might reveal which one is being used, and if it's
> what you want.
>
> The second question is, What name does that iconv use for ISO
> 8859-1? Can
> iconv(1) (the command line utility), for instance, convert
> ISO 8859-1 to
> UTF-8?
>
> If iconv(1) works and there's only one library, a simple test program
> could recapitulate the libtds initialization. If constructed
> as a unit
> test, it might be useful to the project in the future.
>

I think that perhaps under Suse is possible to install iconv with a very
limited set of conversions libraries.
An "rpm -qa" and a "iconv -l" could help (if machine is a production
machine perhaps a private post of rpm -qa would be better).

freddy77




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