Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] check test error under cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

baigali wrote:
> following piece of code not work as expected when make test:
> the output into tmp-out is: B?0xc3??0xb6?se B?0xc3??0xbc?bchen
> the expected is: B«0xc3»«0xb6»se B«0xc3»«0xbc»bchen
> compare result: tmp-out tmp-ok differ: byte 2, line 1
> 
> iconv=../src/iconv_no_i18n
> # Make sure the charset.alias file is found.
> CHARSETALIASDIR=../lib
> export CHARSETALIASDIR
> options_ascii='--unicode-subst=<U+​%04X> --byte-subst=<0x%02x> 
> --widechar-subst=<%08x>'
> options_utf8='--unicode-subst=«U+%04X» --byte-subst=«0x%02x» 
> --widechar-subst=«%08x»'
> # Test of --byte-subst with a non-ASCII substitution.
> if test "`(locale charmap) 2>/dev/null`" = UTF-8; then
>   cat > tmp-in <<\EOF
> Böse Bübchen
> EOF
>   $iconv $options_utf8 -f ASCII -t UTF-8 2>/dev/null < tmp-in > tmp-out
>   cat > tmp-ok <<\EOF
> B«0xc3»«0xb6»se B«0xc3»«0xbc»bchen
> EOF
>   cmp tmp-out tmp-ok
> fi
> 
> 
> is it a bug or a problem of my system? I am running on windows 10 under cygwin

Cygwin has an older version of GNU libiconv preinstalled. Therefore you
need to run "make install" *before* "make check". Does "make check" pass, then?

Bruno