Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/08/07/10:26:57
Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2001, salvador wrote:
>
> The only way to disable the use of libiconv.a is to have not installed it at all.
> More precise: the gettext configure script checks if libiconv.a is installed
> on the system (if you rename $DJDIR/include/iconv.h, then the test will fail).
> If the lib is found it is used and the user has no option to disable this feature.
> If you want a full functional libintl.a but without the runtime recoding capability,
> this would be a libintl.a like the one of gettext-0.10.35, you must rename iconv.h
> or not install libiconv.a (licv17b.zip) at all.
> The generated libintl.a is full functional.
Ok, I'll consider it. As I already include some libraries (libz, libbzip2 and libpcre) I could also
include a small gettext and allow users to configure the editor to use the shipped library instead of
the installed one (optional).
[snip]
> This has really been a very unfortunate and misleading formulation. It was never my intention to
> insinuate that all binaries compiled with libiconv.a will be bloated by a factor 10. Indeed,
> I have only compared the 5 or 6 binaries from gtxt039b.zip. As Eli correctely pointed out,
> the overhead is additive and no multiplicative.
Ok, but 600 Kb is a lot, even for my text editor which I consider huge.
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