[Buildroot] iconv: additional encodings

[Jan Pohanka]

> Do you think you could send a patch to implement this in Buildroot?

Hi Thomas,

I will prepare a patch with this feature. Can you please confirm
whether /etc/environment file can be used to set variables for whole
system in Busybox? Or it is better to use eg. profile file, etc.

thanks
Jan

2013/11/1 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Jan Pohanka,
>
> On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:52:16 +0100, Jan Pohanka wrote:
>
>> I have realized that external toolchain support is a bit patched in the
>> fork that I'm using compared to original one. There is an option to copy
>> files gconv-modules, gconv-modules.cache, CP1250.so, and all other
>> encodings shared libraries to target/usr/lib/gconv directory. I thought
>> that it is a standard directory which the glibc iconv implementation
>> would search shared encodings for. This is not truth because GCONV_PATH
>> has to be set and point there, to make iconv work with all encodings.
>>
>> Maybe something similar could be added to standard Buildroot. It took me
>> a day to realize where is the problem.
>
> Do you think you could send a patch to implement this in Buildroot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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