On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Dan Espen wrote:
> Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr> writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:02:40PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr> writes:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:55:20AM -0800, Elliot Sowadsky wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 2.5.8 had a problem for me of being slow.
> > > > > 2.5.9 shows the same problem.
> > > > > 2.5.7 is ok.
> > > >
> > > > Dear Duane, Elliot and any Solaris 8 user,
> > > >
> > > > Can you try to compile 2.5.9 with the --disable-iconv option to configure
> > > > (this is not the same thing than --with-iconv-library=no).
> > > >
> > > > Also, can one install gnu libiconv (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/)
> > > > and reconfigure and compile fvwm without the --disable-iconv and
> > > > the --with-iconv-library=no. configure should finish with a line like
> > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > With Iconv support? yes (libiconv)
> > > >
> > > > and *not*
> > > >
> > > > With Iconv support? yes (from C library)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Not sure that the problem is iconv (2.5.7 has in theory iconv
> > > > support for Solaris 8).
> > >
> > > It actually displays something about being disabled by configure.
> > >
> >
> > Do you mean that with Solaris 8 fvwm 2.5.7 has no iconv support
> > if you run configure without iconv related option?
>
> I updated to CVS and compiled 2.5.10.
>
> With -disable-iconv it runs fine.
> The message configure prints is:
> With Iconv support? no: Explicitly disabled
>
> Without --disable-iconv it runs really slow.
> The message configure prints is:
> With Iconv support? yes (from C library)
>
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I've recompiled the 2.5.9 release tarball with the --disable-iconv flag on
Solaris 8 as well and performance appears to be as fast as 2.5.7.
Thanks to everyone and keep up the great work. I've been using fvwm since
version 1.24r and love it.
Duane.
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Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 07:07:59 GMT