glib-2.2.3 install on FreeBSD

[Peter kryszkiewicz <vertexg telus net>]

I'm trying to install Gtkmm and get this error when running .configure in 
/usr.local/glib-2.2.3

 checking for iconv_open... no
 checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
 checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
 configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or 
libiconv

I did install the latest libiconv ... then gettext ... then reinstalled 
libiconv again.

Some of the archived posts mention 2 ways of installing libiconv (quoted 
from the README file):
  "This library can be built and installed in two variants:
    - The library mode. This works on all systems, and uses a library
      `libiconv.so' and a header file `<iconv.h>'. (Both are installed
      through "make install".) "
    - The libc plug/override mode. This works on GNU/Linux ...

I'm assuming I should use the first method, but iconv() is somehow not 
visible to the glib configure process.
libiconv is installed in a standard location:
/modules/libiconv.ko
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.a
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.la
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.so
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3
/usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.4

 What am I missing?
regards, PK



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