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documentation of iconv bug and libstdcxx-v3


Hi,

The following should help people (like me) that want to test a
current gcj/libgcj cvs snapshot. OK to commit?

2000-10-17  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>

    * build-snapshot.html: Add --enable-libstdcxx-v3
    * faq.html: Mention the iconv bug and workaround

? patch
Index: build-snapshot.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/java/htdocs/build-snapshot.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -u -r1.5 build-snapshot.html
--- build-snapshot.html	2000/08/27 22:03:04	1.5
+++ build-snapshot.html	2000/10/17 08:05:58
@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@
   $ cd egcs
   $ mkdir objdir
   $ cd objdir
-  $ ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/home/joerg/gcc \ 
-     --with-as=/opt/gnu/bin/as --with-ld=/opt/gnu/bin/ld
+  $ ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/home/joerg/gcc \
+    --enable-libstdcxx-v3 --with-as=/opt/gnu/bin/as --with-ld=/opt/gnu/bin/ld
   $ make bootstrap
   $ make install
+
+The "--enable-libstdcxx-v3" is now required to build libgcj, because
+otherwise you wont get a libsupc++.
 
 If you compile under Linux you could omit the last two options. Under
 Solaris you'll need them. If you omit '--prefix' the compiled source will 
Index: faq.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/java/htdocs/faq.html,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -u -r1.28 faq.html
--- faq.html	2000/07/08 18:27:35	1.28
+++ faq.html	2000/10/17 08:05:58
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
               heap sizes?</a> 
             <li><a href="#5_6">How can I profile my application?</a> 
 	    <li><a href="#5_7">I'm getting 'undefined symbol: __dso_handle'</a>
+	    <li><a href="#5_8">My program seems to hang and doesn't produce any output</a>
           </ol>
         <li><a href="#6_0">Programing Issues</a> 
           <ol>
@@ -782,7 +783,19 @@
 	</sl>
 	</blockquote>
       </dl>      
-      
+
+    <hr>  
+    <dl>
+	<dt>
+      <h3><a name="5_8">5.8 My program seems to hang and doesn't produce any output</a></h3>
+	</dt>
+    <dd>
+    There seems to be a bug in the current iconv support. You can work around
+    it for now by setting <tt>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</tt> at runtime. Or give the
+    following option during compile time <tt>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</tt>.
+    </dd>
+    </dl>
+
       <p> 
       <table width="100%" border="0">
         <tr bgcolor="#B0D0FF" align="left"> 

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