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Re: [PATCH] test for libiconv in configure


>>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis writes:

> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> | 	* acinclude.m4 (GLIBCPP_CHECK_WCHAR_T_SUPPORT): Add test
> | 	for libiconv.a

Gabriel> Where is this used?  And what happens if not found.  Please don't
Gabriel> hesitate to be descriptive.  Thanks.

	On AIX, libiconv.a provides iconv(), iconv_open(), and
iconv_close() used by wchar_t support.  If the library is not referenced,
the functions are not found and libstdc++ does not correctly handle
wchar_t support on AIX.

David

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