1 All you need to know when hacking (modifying) GNU libiconv or when building
8 You will need reasonably recent versions of the build tools:
10 * A C compiler. Such as GNU GCC.
16 http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
20 http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
24 http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
28 http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/
30 * GNU groff 1.17 or newer
32 http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
38 * Either an internet connection or a recent copy of GNU gnulib.
40 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/
42 And, of course, the packages listed in the DEPENDENCIES file.
48 Access to the CVS is described at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=51585 .
50 After fetching the sources from the CVS, peek at the comments in autogen.sh,
51 then run "./autogen.sh"; then you can proceed with "./configure" as usual.
57 For an indication which encodings are acceptable in the official version of
58 GNU libiconv, take a look at NOTES.
60 For an indication which files need to be modified when adding a new encoding,
61 look for example at the 2007-05-25 ChangeLog entry for RK1048. The lib/*.h
62 file for an encoding is usually generated by one of the tools in the tools/
63 directory. All you need to provide is the conversion table in the format of