Integration of this library into your package: The preferred way is to use the Gnulib module 'localcharset'. Here are instructions if you don't want to use Gnulib. It's tedious, many small changes to your package: * Copy the lib/ source file (localcharset.c) and the include file (include/localcharset.h) into your package. * Add the m4/ files (codeset.m4, fcntl_h.m4) to your aclocal.m4 file or, if you are using automake, to your m4/ directory. * Add the following lines to your configure.ac file: AC_CANONICAL_HOST AM_LANGINFO_CODESET gl_FCNTL_O_FLAGS AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stddef.h stdlib.h string.h]) and make sure that it sets and AC_SUBSTs the PACKAGE variable. * If you are not using automake, add rules to your Makefile.in: - Augment target "all" by localcharset.o * If you are using automake, add rules to your Makefile.am: - Augment the main *_SOURCES variable by localcharset.h localcharset.c