I recently received the Debian bug report below about missing iconv

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit 96e1fbe39670 · 2005-12-08T18:04:33.000Z
support for the dbf2pg contrib module.

The submitter created a patch which replaces the silent ignoring of -F
(when iconv support is disabled) with a meaningful warning.

Martin Pitt
diff --git a/contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c b/contrib/dbase/dbf2pg.c
@@ -618,10 +618,14 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 			case 'U':
 				username = (char *) strdup(optarg);
 				break;
-#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
 			case 'F':
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
 				charset_from = (char *) strdup(optarg);
+#else
+				printf("WARNING: dbf2pg was compiled without iconv support, ignoring -F option\n");
+#endif
 				break;
+#ifdef HAVE_ICONV_H
 			case 'T':
 				charset_to = (char *) strdup(optarg);
 				break;
