[yocto] eglibc's iconv (version 2.17) command in Yocto Dylan for x86 target

[Burton, Ross]

On 7 January 2014 03:31, Bill Martin <billmartin544 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Trousers and tss on my Yocto target build. I attempted to make a
> call to tspi_tpm_collateidentityrequest and this requires a UNICODE string
> in UTF-16 form. The preceding call to iconv fails when I try to convert from
> ASCII to UTF-16. I tried variations of the UTF-16, based on iconv --list.
>
> I know this command works on other Unix-based systems. I tried on three
> different machines running Ubuntu and can convert from ASCII to UTF-16.
>
> Rather than modify all the TrouSers code and force it to only use UTF-8, I
> wonder if anyone here has a patch for eglibc that would allow iconv to
> convert to UTF-16?

Can you check that your image contains the eglibc-gconv-utf-16
package, as the character set converters are split into separate
packages and only installed on request.  You probably want to add a
runtime dependency on that package to trousers.

Ross