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diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml index c7e6c9a86..00dffeb87 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml @@ -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 |