Re: AIX glib compile error message "gettext not found"

[Salman Mohsin <ssmohsin yahoo com>]

I had already tried that and it gave the same result :-(

 

I posted the output from running configure and excerpt from config.log. Can some knowledgeable person who knows these intricacies have a look at these and see if there's something amiss. Of particular interest to me are the following lines from config.log:

 

configure:6455: checking if -liconv is needed to use gettext
configure:6457: result:
configure:6459: checking for dcgettext in -lintl
configure:6489: cc -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lintl -liconv  >&5
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_close
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_set_relocation_prefix
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_open
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
configure:6495: $? = 8
configure: failed program was:

 

and the following output from configure:

 

checking for iconv_open... no
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
checking for iconv_open in -liconv... yes

So somehow, configure found out that "libiconv_open" is not available but "iconv_open" is, but still in the config.log we see that it's erroring out on "libiconv_open". Is it significant? Does it matter? I don't know, someone with more insight would have to take a look.

 

Also, I apologize if this is not the correct list for posting such problems. If it's not, please let me know which list to post to, thanks.

 

Salman

Christer Palm <palm nogui se> wrote:

Salman Mohsin wrote:
> After doing what Daniel asked me to do (setting environment variables),
> configure went a few steps further but again gave the same error:
>
...
>
> configure:6318: checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl
> configure:6348: cc -o conftest -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include
> -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lintl >&5
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_close
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_set_relocation_prefix
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv_open
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .libiconv
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more
> information.

IIRC, AIX doesn't honor LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but uses LIBPATH instead. So
try export LIBPATH=/usr/local/lib instead.

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Christer Palm