Subject: Re: porting problem
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 27 2001 - 20:33:28 CST
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Sam TH wrote:
>
> ICONV_CONST is a horrible hack that I created to fix this problem of
> incompatible iconv() prototypes. What you need to do is find where
> ICONV_CONST is defined, and add something like this:
>
> #ifdef __MAC_OS__ // or whatever your platform defines
> #define ICONV_CONST const
> #endif
>
> That should fix the problem.
>
> This is a hacked-up way to get around our lack of configure, which
> shold evetually be remedied (once my computer works again).
With the attached patch (thanks Hubert for asking about that!!!) I can
finally build abiword on Yellow Dog Linux (PPC) using the Red Hat rawhide
spec. The final reason I used the Red Hat spec rather than the abisource spec
is because the RH one is fully able to be built as a user, while the abisource
one wants to install to your running system (not very polite).
In the future it would be very helpful to folks like me to have an
AbiSource-supplied SRPM that is known to build correctly.
At any rate, I look forward to configure (never thought I'd hear myself say
that). Great work on the word processor, and good luck on the build system! :)
-Hollis
P.S. Is it "abiWORD" or "abiSUITE"? A lot of confusion there.. RH ships
abiword, you guys build abisuite...
P.P.S. cc me on replies; must lower INBOX flow. ;)
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