1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 071e27393b..63eb286e27 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7465,7 +7465,7 @@ else
   _def_charset="#undef MSG_CHARSET"
 fi
 
-if test "$_charset" != "UTF-8" ; then
+if test -n "$_charset" && test "$_charset" != "UTF-8" ; then
 echocheck "iconv program"
 iconv -f UTF-8 -t $_charset ${_mp_help} > /dev/null 2>> "$TMPLOG"
 if test "$?" -ne 0 ; then