Re: [exim] Re: iconv

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Author: Steve Sargent
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To: exim-users
CC: James Ray
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: iconv
Thanks.

I'll ask our unix guy about 5.9.





Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Steve Sargent wrote:
>
>
>>I have now got to the bottom of this!!!!
>>
>>The easiest way round it is to edit the Makefile in OS/Makefile-SunOS5 thus:-
>>
>>7c7
>>< HAVE_ICONV=yes
>>---
>>
>>>HAVE_ICONV=no
>
>
> 1. You should never edit anything in the OS directory. Instead, you
> should have put HAVE_ICONV=no into Local/Makefile. That way, you can
> just copy Local/Makefile when you want to compile the next release,
> instead of having to re-edit.
>
> 2. I compile Exim quite happily on Solaris 5.9 without having to do
> anything special about HAVE_ICONV. Are you using an earlier release? Ah
> yes, you did say 5.8. I suspect iconv() must have been added to 5.9 in a
> more standard way.
>
>
>>The -R/usr/local/lib part tells it where to find the iconv library at run
>>time!!!
>
>
> Yes, one needs to remember that bit on Solaris when you specify
> additional libraries.
>


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