Hi, many thanks for testing xorriso in new situations.
> 1) It tries to build even if no iconv is present The tests in configure.ac resp. acinclude.m4 are too lax, obviously. They aim for finding out whether one needs -liconv or not. But they don't assure that iconv() works. I will have to make experiments with a non-existing dummy function, as it seems impossible to disable iconv() on Linux. > 2) I needed to explicitly add LIBS=-liconv to configure depstite > configure properly detecting the need of -liconv. In some commands > actually -liconv was double: one from configure and another from LIBS > but somewhere it's not propagated properly This sounds a bit like a bug in autotools. But in the log you sent, i only find them in pairs. Obviously one from LIBS= and one from dnl GNU iconv has no function iconv() but libiconv() and a macro iconv() AC_CHECK_LIB(iconv, libiconv, , ) Are you sure that the lack of -liconv was not due to libiconv missing initially ? > 3) A ton of warnings. The implementation of the isspace() family seems not to be liked by the compiler. Shrug. I found legitimate warnings about putting out uid_t and gid_t by printf formatter "%d". (Question is whether (int) is a suitable cast in this case.) Then there is the intentional warning that no MMC system adapter is available for operating optical drives directly. libburn/sg.c:42: warning: unused variable INTENTIONAL_COMPILER_WARNING libburn/sg.c:39: warning: unused variable This_libburn_will_not_be_able_to_operate_on_real_CD_drives This does not hamper the GRUB use case. One will just need cdrecord for burning the CD, rather than letting xorriso do: xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=... blank=as_needed my_grub.iso ------------------------------------------------ So mainly the LIBS=-liconv remains as build obstacle. I have changed the iconv detection code in configure.ac meanwhile (to care for the "const" ambiguity on FreeBSD). A new tarball http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-0.5.3.tar.gz is uploaded. cat xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h should say #define Xorriso_timestamP "2010.04.10.180103" or later. Could you please try it on cygwin without LIBS= (but libiconv installed) and send me the log of the failing compile run ? If nothing else helps then i plan to set LIBS="$LIBS -liconv" in a special cygwin case in acinclude.m4. (Do you know a reliable test pattern for cygwin ? Like *-*-linux* for Linux.) For now the double -liconv options give me hope that it could work without that. Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
