From afd8896d35ae94dae07006b7f1a14e2dc211cee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Francois Dockes <jfd@recoll.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:53:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] comments

---
 src/configure.ac | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/configure.ac b/src/configure.ac
index 58302df2..772099fd 100644
--- a/src/configure.ac
+++ b/src/configure.ac
@@ -259,6 +259,10 @@ AC_LANG(C++)
 LIBICONV=""
 S_LIBS=$LIBS
 S_CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS
+# On systems which both have iconv in libc and libiconv in /usr/local this
+# will not work: the iconv.h in /usr/local will be found at compile time,
+# and redefine iconv_open to libiconv_open, but the link will not have
+# -liconv. Have to remove ${libdir} or move /usr/local/lib first.
 for dir in ${libdir} /opt/local/lib /usr/local/lib;do
   CPPFLAGS="$S_CPPFLAGS -I$dir/../include"