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From:	Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 08.02.2021 16:33, matthew patton wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM Jon Turney  wrote:
> 
>  >> It seems that gdb wants to run 'iconv -l' to list the available 
> encodings.
>  >>
>  >> It looks like perhaps an upstream bug that gdb outputs nothing when
>  >> iconv can't be found (rather than using the default encoding?).
> 
>  > the lack of a backup solution is clearly an upstream bug.
>  > I assume iconv is usually present and only on border case the bug
>  > is evident.
> 
> Indeed it is.
> iconv is provided by glibc-common on Linux distros so it's always 
> available.
> Forcing a cygwin package dependency on iconv would be easiest fix.

this is already implemented

https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/gdb.html

gdb is now pulling libiconv

> And open an ERRATA with upstream to gracefully handle lack of the binary.


Regards
Marco
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