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diff --git a/makefiledir/iconv_detector.c b/makefiledir/iconv_detector.c
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+/* $Id$ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <iconv.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+/* this is a pretty simple app, that will return 1 if it manages to compile and execute
+ * This means that it can be used by the makefile to detect if iconv is present on the current system
+ * no iconv means this file fails and will return nothing */
+
+int main ()
+{
+	iconv_t cd = iconv_open("","");
+	iconv(cd,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
+	iconv_close(cd);
+	printf("1\n");
+	return 0;
+}