new custom dependency lookup for iconv

Also internally needed by intl, so add that as a proxied dependency
instead of coding it manually.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md
index 9f0ab7f..d09c688 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md
@@ -453,6 +453,15 @@ language.
 *New in 0.56.0* the dependencies now return proper dependency types
  and `get_variable` and similar methods should work as expected.
 
+## iconv
+
+*(added 0.60.0)*
+
+Provides access to the `iconv` family of C functions. On systems where this is
+not built into libc, tries to find an external library providing them instead.
+
+`method` may be `auto`, `builtin` or `system`.
+
 ## intl
 
 *(added 0.59.0)*
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/iconv-dependency.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/iconv-dependency.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21a2985
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+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/iconv-dependency.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+## New custom dependency for iconv
+
+```
+dependency('iconv')
+```
+
+will now check for the functionality of libiconv.so, but first check if it is
+provided in the libc (for example in glibc or musl libc on Linux).