Re: Trouble building parted

[Andrew Clausen]

Ben Beuchler wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon...
> 
> I'm attempting to build parted 1.2.9 on Slackware 7.0.  I'm getting some
> odd libiconv related errors.  ./configure completes without complaint,
> but when I run make, it fails with this complaint:

Weird.
 
> strlist.o: In function `init_str_list':
> strlist.o(.text+0x16d): undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
> strlist.o(.text+0x196): undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
> strlist.o(.text+0x1bf): undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
> strlist.o: In function `done_str_list':
> strlist.o(.text+0x1fe): undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
> strlist.o(.text+0x20c): undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
> strlist.o: In function `gettext_to_wchar':
> strlist.o(.text+0x277): undefined reference to `libiconv'
> strlist.o: In function `wchar_to_str':
> strlist.o(.text+0x38f): undefined reference to `libiconv'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 
> I have libiconv-1.3 installed in the default paths (prefix of
> /usr/local).  I rebuilt it and reinstalled just for the heck of it.  No
> dice.  It's the version available from
> http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html

At the moment, parted expects iconv stuff to be in libc, so it's
probably not linking to it.

I'll try adding a configure check.

Is the name of the lib, libiconv.so?

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen