Subversion on HP-UX

[Olivier Masse]

This might be far-fetched, but has anybody out there been able to make a subversion client work with UTF-8 characters on HP-UX?

First of all, I'm using a custom-compiled 1.3.1 client and server instead of the depot from the porting center, as I needed the DAV module for Apache which wasn't available and their version relied on way, way to much librairies I didn't want to install.

It has worked fine for a while, but the developpers are starting to ask for accented character support in their commit comments - and it never works, with svn complaining that it can't convert to UTF-8. If I set the locale to C it works, but anything else fails.

I think, although this is pure speculation, that the iconv() function in HP-UX is the culprit but it's hard to say for sure. I've tried compiling svn 1.3.2 with apr-iconv to have APR use its own iconv instead, but I'm not able to build it on HP-UX. So I then tried plan B, which is linking APR-Util against GNU libiconv, but I think it finds out the stock iconv; doing a chatr on libapr-util doesn't show libiconv as a dependent library.

I know this is really, really a corner case. But just in case someone had the same problem, I thought I'd ask.

Points will be awarded, but be patient as I might not be able to read your replies until next tuesday.

Thanks

[rick jones]

What are the specific build failure messages when trying to compile with the apr-iconv?