From 791a9ec3c2a7dae316e6a4ba37baec03ef5ba028 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Burgess Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:53:02 +0000 Subject: 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 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 +++ chapter06/glibc.xml | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index fe7abe95e..02489c145 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log. +August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required +on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614). + August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files (fixes bug 1601). 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 Installation of Glibc +Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in +order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's home page +() says This library +provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems +which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. + Glibc provides an iconv() implementation and can +convert from/to Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS +system. + This package is known to have issues when its default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options) are changed. If any environment -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf