utf8: handle systems that don't write BOM for UTF-16

[thirdparty/git.git] / Makefile

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0e13a5b4698a02e93c9f2c95e06b4193fe229567..457311bc31b54c48aa17f6abdc487baa174786e1 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -259,6 +259,10 @@ all::
 # Define OLD_ICONV if your library has an old iconv(), where the second
 # (input buffer pointer) parameter is declared with type (const char **).
 #
+# Define ICONV_OMITS_BOM if your iconv implementation does not write a
+# byte-order mark (BOM) when writing UTF-16 or UTF-32 and always writes in
+# big-endian format.
+#
 # Define NO_DEFLATE_BOUND if your zlib does not have deflateBound.
 #
 # Define NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER if your gcc does not like "-R/path/lib"
@@ -1415,6 +1419,9 @@ ifndef NO_ICONV
                EXTLIBS += $(ICONV_LINK) -liconv
        endif
 endif
+ifdef ICONV_OMITS_BOM
+       BASIC_CFLAGS += -DICONV_OMITS_BOM
+endif
 ifdef NEEDS_LIBGEN
        EXTLIBS += -lgen
 endif