On 08.02.2021 16:33, matthew patton wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM Jon Turney wrote:
>> It seems that gdb wants to run 'iconv -l' to list the available
encodings.
>>
>> It looks like perhaps an upstream bug that gdb outputs nothing when
>> iconv can't be found (rather than using the default encoding?).
> the lack of a backup solution is clearly an upstream bug.
> I assume iconv is usually present and only on border case the bug
> is evident.
Indeed it is.
iconv is provided by glibc-common on Linux distros so it's always
available.
Forcing a cygwin package dependency on iconv would be easiest fix.
this is already implemented
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/gdb.html
gdb is now pulling libiconv
And open an ERRATA with upstream to gracefully handle lack of the binary.
Regards
Marco
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