--- gmime-2.1.7/configure.in.orig	2004-07-05 20:17:32.000000000 +0100
+++ gmime-2.1.7/configure.in	2004-07-22 12:58:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -146,6 +146,14 @@
 	*** working iconv library such as the one found at
 	*** ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv
 	])
+],[
+	AC_MSG_RESULT([cross-compiling, making some assumptions...])
+	AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ICONV_DETECT_H)
+	cat >iconv-detect.h <<EOF
+#define ICONV_ISO_D_FORMAT "iso-%d-%d"
+#define ICONV_ISO_S_FORMAT "iso-%d-%s"
+#define ICONV_10646 "iso-10646"
+EOF
 ])
 
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS_save"