Re: Building with libiconv

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On 2001.08.10 17:22:25 +0100 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:

> Well, currently my hack to configure.in replaces iconv with giconv and
> iconv_open with libiconv_open so that you have:
> 
> AC_CHECK_LIB(giconv, libiconv_open, , [
> 	AC_CHECK_FUNC(libiconv_open, , [
> 		AC_MSG_ERROR([*** You need giconv for libmutt.])
> 		])
> 	])
> 
> Note that I have to pass gcc the paths to the header and the library
> explicitly by setting (in the environment)
> CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" and LIBS=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lgiconv"
> where LOCALBASE is set by my build environment (by default) to/usr/local. 
> If this isn't done, the test will fail.

Noted.

You might want to get the current libxml2 tarball from http://xmlsoft.org/
and look over that to see if it workss with your configuration.
It has had similar problems with the use of libiconv but the solution proposed
is rather more comprehensive than that in balsa or libmutt.

Brian Stafford