From: UnixOS2 Archive
To: "UnixOS2 Archive" <UnixOS2_Archive at unixos2.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:08:28 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 142

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Tuesday 01 July 2003
 Number  142
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Subjects for today
 
1   Re: Conflict between iconv.dll for gcc 3.2.1 and texinfo 4.1 : Thomas Hoffmann <thoffman at zappa.sax.de>

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Date:  Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:52:25 +0200
From:  Thomas Hoffmann <thoffman at zappa.sax.de>
Subject:   Re: Conflict between iconv.dll for gcc 3.2.1 and texinfo 4.1

Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 23:15:08 +0200
> Thomas Hoffmann <thoffman at zappa.sax.de> wrote:
....
> Why do you know that the special texinfo is *required*? The iconv.dll
To be more precise: The supplied makeinfo binary requires the "big" 
iconv.dll, otherwise it will return an SYS2070 (as you mentioned: 
missing INTL40->ICONV.libiconv_open in popuplog).

> that comes with gettext library is small but supports a lot of
> encodings, since it is just a wrapper around the OS/2 Unicode API.
> 
> Now what you can do: one solution would be to use the iconv.dll supplied
> with gcc instead of GNU intl, because it is native for OS/2. The header
> file is attached to this mail, the import library you can create with
> emximp: "emximp -o iconv.a iconv.dll".
Yes, if I would like to rebuild texinfo. But I simply wanted to use it 
for another project, where configure failed to recognize gcc and a 
"current" (>=4.0) texinfo.
> 
> Alternatively you can modify the .DEF file for GNU intl library so that
> the iconv functions are exported by name. Then gcc will (should) work
> with such a intl.dll.
Can this work for two iconv.dll that have these exports according to exehdr:

  ord  obj   offset    name
    1    1  00000028  iconv_open exported, shared data
    2    1  00000184  iconv              exported, shared data
    3    1  000002c8  iconv_close        exported, shared data
    4    1  0000055c  iconv_default_codeset      exported, shared data

and

  ord  obj   offset    name
    1    1  000c9e64  libiconvctl        exported, shared data
    2    1  000c99dc  libiconv_open      exported, shared data
    3    1  000c9e54  libiconv_close     exported, shared data
    4    1  000ca2d0  locale_charset     exported, shared data
    5    1  000c9ee8  aliases_lookup     exported, shared data
    6    2  00000088  _libiconv_version  exported, shared data
    7    1  000c9e20  libiconv           exported, shared data


BTW, I solved my problem by going with the gcc-compatible (small) 
iconv.dll and downgrading to texinfo 4.0, which does not use iconv.

Thomas.