FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> > 
> > 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).
> 

I discovered the cause of iconv problem using SUSE. ISO-8859-1 charset
(required by FreeTDS) require the package glibc-locale package on SUSE.

freddy77