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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:27:26 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Arseny Slobodjuck <ampy AT inbox DOT ru>
Subject:	Re: libiconv package must be recompiled
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Sam Steingold wrote:

>>I'm sorry, but while I have no objection to rebuilding the package per
>>se, I need more than "stir in this magic powder and it works!" before
>>I'm entirely comfortable with this.
> 
> 
> as <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.general/6767> explains,
> the apparent problem is that EILSEQ was conflated with ENOENT.
> 
> I.e., both were defined to be the same number, which caused CLISP to
> barf on innocuous errors.

Ok, I misunderstood the original report -- I thought the problem was 
*solely* a cygwin kernel error.  But, because EILSEQ/ENOENT are 
#defines, even after cygwin gets fixed, the compiled libiconv stays 
broken.   libiconv was returning an EILSEQ error -- but because cygwin 
*at the time libiconv was compiled* defined EILSEQ == ENOENT, clisp was 
getting confused.  So by recompiling libiconv against a newer cygwin 
that correctly defines EILSEQ, libiconv will return the correct error 
code and clisp will stop being confused.

Got it.

Look for a new release of libiconv soon.

--Chuck


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