Re: Some problems compiling gstep-gui-0.6.7

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, March 24, 2001, at 09:06 AM, Yann Le Guen wrote:

> Hi, 
>  
> In GNUstep-HOWTO I read: 
> `libiconv' 
>      Unicode support functions (iconv) come with glibc version 2.1 or 
>      greater. If you don't have this, you can get the separate libiconv 
>      library from <http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html>. 
>      However, neither one is required to use GNUstep. 
>  
> Then while compiling the base pkg when reaching the line: 
>  
>  -L/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/powerpc/linux-gnu  -o shared_o 
> bj/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/gdnc \ 
>  
> you got: 
>  
> ../Source/shared_obj/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so: 
> unde 
> fined reference to `libiconv_open' 
> ../Source/shared_obj/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so: 
> unde 
> fined reference to `libiconv_close' 
> ../Source/shared_obj/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/libgnustep-base.so: 
> unde 
> fined reference to `libiconv' 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 
> make[3]: *** [shared_obj/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps/gdnc] Error 1 
> make[2]: *** [gdnc.build] Error 2 
> make[1]: *** [gdnc.all.tool.variables] Error 2 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gstep/core/base/Tools' 
> make: *** [internal-all] Error 2                                              
>                   
>  
> Ok I've download the libivonv archive, read carefully the INSTALL 
> instructions, 
> run ldconfig in case,  but the error still remains. 
> libiconv is actually located in /usr/lical/lib. Should I move it or build a 
> symLink somewhere or simply did I miss read the right instruction to succeed 
> ? 


Sounds like you need to configure gnustep-base using
  --with-libiconv-library=PATH
to specify where the iconv library should be found.

If libiconv was installed in the standard library path (eg /usr/lib) this
would not be necessary.