--disable-nls vs. libiconv

Fri May 9 04:59:00 GMT 2003

> Jeff> a) looks like the current behavior, but I don't remember if this
> Jeff> was a deliberate choice or not.
>> I don't think it was. I don't remember thinking about --disable-nls
> at all.

I think PR java/2812 could explain this a bit. I'm guessing that
AM_ICONV is SNAFU-ing slightly on the submitter's build machine.
Whether iconv( ) is used or not when --disable-nls is specified
depends on what *exactly* we take this configure option to 
mean - does it only mean that the compiler messages would be in
the standard US-English or even that the compiler cannot parse
non-ASCII files.
The latter might not augur well with what Java compilers are
supposed to be able to do, AFAICT.
My 2p.
Ranjit.