[Fontconfig] libiconv detection seems convoluted

[Raimund Steger]

Daniel Macks wrote:
> On OS X, iconv.h is in a default search path (no need for -I flags);
> but is not part of the system library itself,so -liconv is needed
> (but again is in default search path so no need for -L flags). There
> are a bunch of special-purpose --with-libiconv* flags, but there
> doesn't seem to be an easy way to handle my situation. If I
> understand the if/elif spaghetti, I need to declare an explicit
> libiconv prefix or includes directory in order for libiconv_cflags to
> be set, which is the only way to trigger libiconv_libs getting set.

You're right, but to be honest it's not that much of a hassle to specify 
the '--enable-iconv --with-libiconv=/usr' arguments to ./configure.

I thought iconv usage in fontconfig was on a deprecation path anyway 
(it's disabled by default), so why ship even a new .m4 file with it...

Raimund


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