Re: [boost] [Locale] On Mac OS X 10.6 fails to find iconv

Subject: Re: [boost] [Locale] On Mac OS X 10.6 fails to find iconv
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-24 02:49:12

on Tue Jul 19 2011, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]>
>> 
>> The test gcc 4.4 is  built using macports, so it's likely they'll have
>> at least two versions of  iconv on their machine (the apple one with
>> prefix /usr and the macports one  with prefix /opt/local). But that
>> isn't a problem for me, so it might not be  the problem  here.
>
> I see. I myself also had seen many complains about iconv and Mac OS X.
>
> Hopefully I'll get some logs from the testing machines so it would
> be possible to specify the correct iconv via ICONV_PATH. 

The last, best, hint I heard about how to solve this involved making the
built-in iconv.h header inaccessible to the build, so the macports one
could more readily be found.

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Dave Abrahams
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