Bug in libiconv?

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Fri Jan 28 22:13:00 GMT 2011


On 1/25/2011 10:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Please note that I defined
>>> __STDC_ISO_10646__ for Cygwin 1.7.8 yesterday.  This define is
>>> missing since 1.7.2.
>>
>> Hmmm...maybe I should (re)build libiconv against a snapshot?
> 
> I think that should be safe.  There's most likely no new API which would
> accidentally be pulled in by libiconv(*).
> 
> (*) Famous last words...

Yep.  The new fenv support causes applications to add a dependency (from
their startup code?) to the new symbol _feinitialize. So, cygiconv-2.dll
appears ok, but iconv.exe is not.

--
Chuck


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