From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4609 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Hourihane Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: CP850 & IBM850 codepages Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:31:46 +0000 Message-ID: <530D19D2.4020800@fairlite.co.uk> References: <530D0EA5.8080904@fairlite.co.uk> <20140225222557.GH184@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393367509 11424 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2014 22:31:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:31:49 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4613-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Feb 25 23:31:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WIQXe-0004bP-Fr for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:31:58 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 17543 invoked by uid 550); 25 Feb 2014 22:31:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17532 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2014 22:31:57 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: <20140225222557.GH184@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-Mailcore-Auth: 11222358 X-Mailcore-Domain: 207951 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4609 Archived-At: On 02/25/14 22:25, Rich Felker wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:44:05PM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> First post to the list, so thank you for musl. >> >> I was just compiling samba against musl and got this..... >> >> checking for iconv in /usr/lib... yes >> checking can we convert from CP850 to UCS2-LE?... no >> checking can we convert from IBM850 to UCS2-LE?... no >> checking can we convert from ASCII to UCS2-LE?... ASCII >> checking can we convert from UTF-8 to UCS2-LE?... UTF-8 >> checking for iconv in /usr/local/lib... yes >> checking can we convert from CP850 to UCS2-LE?... no >> checking can we convert from IBM850 to UCS2-LE?... no >> checking can we convert from ASCII to UCS2-LE?... ASCII >> checking can we convert from UTF-8 to UCS2-LE?... UTF-8 >> configure: WARNING: Sufficient support for iconv function was not found. >> Install libiconv from http://freshmeat.net/projects/libiconv/ >> for better charset compatibility! >> >> Looking at the code we're missing the "cp850" and "ibm850" codepages. >> >> I'm not sure how they are derived in the musl source though. >> >> Any help appreciated. > In the immediate, I think your best course of action would be to see > if you can just override these tests. It seems unlikely to me that you > would really need conversion from these legacy codepages for normal > usage of samba. (BTW I'm surprised nobody else has reported this > before... does anybody else know why it hasn't come up..?) That's easy enough. > Adding cp850 and other DOS codepages should not be hard and should not > take up much additional size in iconv, but it's also nontrivial to do > without my tools to generate the tables, which are not published. > Publishing them is something I should really get around to doing, > since their absence affects the ability of others to modify the code > in meaningful ways; I need to apologize for not doing so already. > O.k. that makes sense as I couldn't understand the format. :-) Thanks, Alan.