On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 12:55:11PM +0100, Kevin Daudt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 11:45:02AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 01:04:03AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > > [..] > > > In any case, this test seems mainly relevant to Windows users wanting > > > to store source files in UTF-16LE with BOM. This doesn't really make > > > sense to do on a Linux/musl system, so I'm not sure any action is > > > needed here from either side. > > > > I do know that some people use CIFS or the like to share repositories > > between Unix and Windows. However, I agree that such people aren't > > likely to use UTF-16 on Unix systems. The working tree encoding > > functionality also supports other encodings which musl may or may not > > support. > > > > If you and your users are comfortable with the fact that the test (and > > the corresponding functionality) won't work as expected with UTF-16, > > then I agree that no action is needed. > > So would you suggest that we just skip this test on Alpine Linux?
That's not exactly what I said. If Alpine Linux users are never going to use this functionality and don't care that it's broken, then that's a fine solution. As originally mentioned, musl could change its libiconv to write a BOM, which would make it compatible with other known iconv implementations. There's also the possibility of defining NO_ICONV. That basically means that your system won't support encodings, and then this test shouldn't matter. Finally, you could try applying a patch to the test to make it write the BOM for UTF-16 since your iconv doesn't. I expect that the test will fail again later on once you've done that, though. I don't have musl so I can't test a patch, but theoretically, you could use a Makefile variable and lazy test prerequisite to control the behavior of the code and test, and we could apply a patch. I'll try to work something up later today which might work and which you could test. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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