Subject: Re: libiconv not working
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/09/2003 09:36:56
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.4.56.0308090906000.4392@kerry>, Hisashi T Fujinaka writes:
> >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >
> >> In message <bh2euq$svr$1@colwyn.zhadum.de>, Matthias Scheler writes:
> >> >In article <20030809075553.DF4FF7C92@berkshire.research.att.com>,
> >> >	Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> >> >> I'm having trouble trying to build a number of different packages that
> >> >> depend on libiconv.
> >> >
> >> >There are two ways to fix this:
> >> >1.) Delete the "libiconv" package and rebuild all package depending on it
> >> >    because NetBSD-current doesn't need "libiconv" any more.
> >> >2.) Set "USE_GNU_ICONV" to "YES" in your environment, use "make clean" and
> >> >    retry to build the package.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how to accomplish the first one?  libiconv isn't
> >> installed; it was properly deleted with the aid of pkgdepgraph.  There
> >> are no files in /usr/pkg/lib or /usr/X11R6/lib that contain the string
> >> 'iconv'.
> >>
> >> I could use option 2, but I'd really prefer to get this cleaned up now.
> >
> >Any idea if 1) even works? I just deleted converters/libiconv and then
> >tried to make abiword and I get:
> >
> >checking iconv.h usability... yes
> >checking iconv.h presence... yes
> >checking for iconv.h... yes
> >configure: error: (usable) libiconv not found
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >Just like I used to before I installed converters/libiconv.
>
> It hasn't worked for me -- reinstalling libiconv was, of course, the
> first thing I tried.

I reinstalled libiconv and now I think everything related to libiconv is
broken (again).

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