gconvert.c, iconv.h error, but libiconv has been removed.

[donald_j_axel <donald_j_axel get2net dk>]

   Hello - could you help me with getting garnome to build?

   I would like to build with garnome but hasn't been able to
eliminate the iconv.h error which has been mentioned a year ago
on this list, and which was solved (by Jeff Waugh and others)
for Olivier Guery.

   They simply adviced him to remove libiconv and try again.
I have tried the same thing, that is, to remove my self made
libiconv*rpm which had iconv.h in /usr/local/include 

   It said that gcc-3.3.1 depended on it (and abiword) which
forced me to do rpm -e --nodeps libiconv. I also renamed
glibc-2.1 iconv.h in /usr/include and in
/usr/i386-glibc21-linux/include/iconv.h

   So it seemed that garnome already installed iconv in 'my home'
which is set to /j3/src/gnome - there was .../garnome/include/iconv

   I removed all of .../garnome and make clean then started over
but now I get an error of missing iconv.h, like this:
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/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION   -I/j3/src/gnome/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -pthread  -g -I/j3/src/gnome/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/j3/src/gnome/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -O2 -pipe -Wall -c gconvert.c
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION -I/j3/src/gnome/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -pthread -g -I/j3/src/gnome/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/j3/src/gnome/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -O2 -pipe -Wall -c gconvert.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gconvert.o
gconvert.c:25:19: iconv.h: No such file or directory
gconvert.c:62: error: parse error before "iconv_t"



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   If I go #$# cd ../../bootstrap/libiconv && make install
then I get back to the other error, (line 45-46-47)

#if !defined(USE_LIBICONV_GNU) && defined (_LIBICONV_H)
#error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv
#endif

================================================================================

So I can deduce as much as this: The glib needs iconv but cannot find its own.
Or some other error is bugging me.

Actually I feel sorry for the internet when using make clean because it also
takes all the (GPG verified) tarballs away. Well, it is not so important now,
but make garchive did not save my downloaded packages and the doc apparently
is for some well known distribution.

So I do not know how to proceed. I have updated most packages on my system
so that the original RH7.2 only has left glibc-2.1 behind (almost only).

That is because I need security updates immediately, so I build openssh,
apache and postgreSQL from source and checkinstall (works like a breeze).

How can I modify the system so that garnome will install? Or should I build
from the dependency sequence on Gnome.org site, and just install from source?

Should I update glibc-2.1? Would that mean recompilation of file-utils etc.
(which would be fine with me)?

Thank you in advance for a comment or two

/Donald Axel
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