We made support for a sufficiently general iconv 'essential' in R
2.5.0 and have been giving configure warnings on --without-iconv ever
since. We originally announced that --without-iconv would be
available in 2.5.x only.
The delay in making iconv compulsory was down to problems with
installing GNU iconv from public repositories on AIX and 64-bit
Solaris, but both are now resolved (see the latest R-admin manual, in
R-patched or R-devel).
So we now propose to make iconv compulsory as from R 2.10.0. If
anyone has a compelling reason why this would cause difficulties,
please post a deatialed case during the next week.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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