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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-08-12 20:53:02 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-08-12 20:53:02 +0000
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parenta6c7de59fff6506471136f8c3e438f8d1a42fdf1 (diff)
Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614)
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6671 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo</seg></seglistitem>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
+<note><para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
+order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's home page
+(<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"/>) says <quote>This library
+provides an <function>iconv()</function> implementation, for use on systems
+which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
+</quote> Glibc provides an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can
+convert from/to Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS
+system.</para></note>
+
<para>This package is known to have issues when its default
optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
<parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options) are changed. If any environment