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diff --git a/gdb/configure.ac b/gdb/configure.ac index 96e0a7b..a42ce27 100644 --- a/gdb/configure.ac +++ b/gdb/configure.ac @@ -433,6 +433,29 @@ AC_SEARCH_LIBS(dlgetmodinfo, [dl xpdl]) AM_ICONV +# GDB may fork/exec the iconv program to get the list of supported character +# sets. Allow the user to specify where to find it. +# There are several factors affecting the choice of option name: +# - There is already --with-libiconv-prefix but we can't use it, it specifies +# the build-time location of libiconv files. +# - The program we need to find is iconv, which comes with glibc. The user +# doesn't necessarily have libiconv installed. Therefore naming this +# --with-libiconv-foo feels wrong. +# - We want the path to be relocatable, but GDB_AC_DEFINE_RELOCATABLE is +# defined to work on directories not files (though it really doesn't know +# the difference). +# - Calling this --with-iconv-prefix is perceived to cause too much confusion +# with --with-libiconv-prefix. +# Putting these together is why the option name is --with-iconv-bin. + +AC_ARG_WITH(iconv-bin, +AS_HELP_STRING([--with-iconv-bin=PATH], [specify where to find the iconv program]), +[iconv_bin="${withval}" + AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([ICONV_BIN], ["${iconv_bin}"], + [Path of directory of iconv program.]) + GDB_AC_DEFINE_RELOCATABLE(ICONV_BIN, iconv, ${iconv_bin}) +]) + # On alpha-osf, it appears that libtermcap and libcurses are not compatible. # There is a very specific comment in /usr/include/curses.h explaining that # termcap routines built into libcurses must not be used. |