Re: Re: msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8" on gettext-22.0 (gettext-21.1 no problem)

[alphons]

Hi Bruno, thanks for your reply.

Bruno wrote:
>Btw, the current version is 0.22.2.

Check. I have updated source code to latest 0.22.2 , but the error is not 
solved.

>All GNU packages support "make install". If you copy selected

True, but that is not the cause of the error. 

When building a system from scratch, this is an in-between-step in a chrooted 
environment.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/gettext.html

After compiling more and more programs, the real gettext building instructions 
are listed here.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter08/gettext.html

There you have your real install ;-)


>>  msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8". msgfmt relies on iconv(). 
>> This version was built without iconv(). 
>
>The error message is clear: The libc does not support iconv().
>
>If installed properly, glibc supports iconv(), of course.

Aaaaaaah, that makes sense ..... !!!NOT!!! :( :( :(


The used glibc-2.38 (of the host system) is compiled default, and supports 
iconv (how to disable iconv on glibc compiling anyways ???)
As a comparison i demonstrated exact same system having same glibc, using 
gettext-0.21.1 and that works fine, no errors when 'make install' a new glibc, 
or gcc.
To clarify a bit, the new glibc is NOT installed on the live host system, so 
there is no interference.

There must be something changed after release gettext-0.21.1
Why does msgfmt from gettext-0.21.1' on the same glibc have no problem 
converting ASCII to UTF-8 and gettext-0.22.x errors out ?

I hope i get this solved, any help appreciated.


thanks

-Alphons.