[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#10263) Critical GTK/win32 error

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10263 >

So: we will make iconv manditory.

Are there any objections to this?

Note that installing iconv and gettext by hand is not as easy as it
sounds.  Each one depends on the other.  From the GNU libiconv page: "On
systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be
internationalized only if GNU gettext has been built and installed
before GNU libiconv. This means that the first time GNU libiconv is
installed, we have a circular dependency between the GNU libiconv and
GNU gettext packages, which can be resolved by [installing one, then the
other, then the first again]".  But maybe iconv doesn't have to be
i18nized for freeciv to use it, so it is sufficient to install iconv and
then gettext.

We do have the choice of including iconv in the Freeciv tarball.  We
could then link straight to known iconv sources.  However iconv is
rather large: GNU's libiconv is about 4 megabytes in tarball form.

jason