On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Jimmy Lim <jimmyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Randell, > > From the libiconv site, there are two ways to install it, the library mode > (the one that you did) and the other one is the libc plug/override mode. > > By executing iconv -V gives you the glibc version installed on your CentOS. > > rpm -q -f /usr/bin/iconv > glibc-common-2.5-49 > > From the GNU page of libiconv, it specifically said that: > > After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is recommended to > recompile and reinstall GNU gettext, so that it can take advantage of > libiconv. > > Another info from the site: > > This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and OSF/1 systems only. It is a way to get > good iconv support without having glibc-2.1. It installs a library > preloadable_libiconv.so. This library can be used with LD_PRELOAD, to > override the iconv* functions present in the C library. > > - On GNU/Linux and Solaris: > > $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so > > - On OSF/1: > > $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so:DEFAULT > > > A program's source need not be modified, the program need not even be > recompiled. Just set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, that's it! > > Instead of doing the whole process by hand and to make your life much > easier, I would highly recommend to use other CentOS yum repo such as: > > epel > rpmforge > ius > The way I understand this is that I only need to yum install the preloadable libiconv and set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to point to it. Is this correct?
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