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Mike Maxwell wrote:
> I have used iconv for several years.  I just updated my cygwin package 
> last night, and now iconv hangs.  That is, all the following commands hang:
> 
> iconv -l
> iconv --list
> echo foo | iconv -f ISO-8859-1 - UTF-8
> 
> And it's a "hard hang", too: ^C won't stop it.
> 
> I don't have any way to get a version number directly from iconv, but 
> I'm attaching my cygcheck.out file.
> 
> Here are what I suspect are the relevant files:
> 
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 maxwell Users 19968 Oct 22 19:44 /bin/iconv*
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 maxwell Users 1048840 Oct 22 19:44 /lib/libiconv.a*
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 maxwell Users    8264 Oct 22 19:44 /lib/libiconv.dll.a*
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 maxwell Users     773 Oct 22 19:44 /lib/libiconv.la*
> 
> I would revert to earlier versions, but I don't know how.  I did 
> re-install the two libiconv packages, to no effect.  I'm not sure what 
> package the iconv executable comes in, so I don't know how to re-install 
> that.
> 
> I'm running this from the bash shell, if it matters.
> 

Did setup.exe warn you to reboot?  I suspect that when you updated 
libiconv*, you also updated gettext* and libintl* -- and bash (also 
/bin/sh) uses cygintl-3.dll and cygiconv-2.dll.  Therefore, if you had 
any shells open, those DLLs would have been "in use", and you would have 
had to reboot to get everything sorted out.

I can't reproduce your problem;

iconv -l
iconv --list
echo foo | iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8

all work fine for me.  Please try again after a reboot...if that doesn't 
work, we will need to discuss strace output...

--
Chuck

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