[Rd] problems with iconv

Wed Dec 14 22:51:42 CET 2011

On Dec 14, 2011, at 19:43 , RogerP wrote:

>> I used the --disable-nls  and --with-included-gettext options.  I also
> downloaded the more >up-to-date cairo package.   
> 
>> BTW, is there a program I can run to test my iconv binary?  I think that
> would rule out any >problem with the compilation. 
> 
>> Thanks for you suggestions and for any future help.  This is frustrating
> because I have >compiled R, just not with a workable iconv, which prevents
> me from updating and adding >packages. 
> 
> 
> I did some looking at iconv and tried 'iconv --list', but got an error
> saying the libgcc was the wrong elf class - elf class 32.  So I changed the
> /opt/csw/lib to /opt/csw/lib/amd64 on my env var LD_LIBRARY.  It ran!  So,
> thought I, this is it - I've solved the problem.
> 
> But no, even though 'iconv --list' ran I still got the same error message.  
> 
> I did notice though that the list returns values for LATIN1 and not latin1
> that configure and the update.packages() both seem to want.  
> 
> Here is the results of 'iconv --list':
> 
> 646 ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ASCII CP367 IBM367 ISO-IR-6 ISO646-US
> ISO_646.IRV:1991 US US-ASCII CSASCII
> UTF-8
> ISO-10646-UCS-2 UCS-2 CSUNICODE
> UCS-2BE UNICODE-1-1 UNICODEBIG CSUNICODE11
> UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE
> ISO-10646-UCS-4 UCS-4 CSUCS4
> UCS-4BE
> UCS-4LE
> UTF-16
> UTF-16BE
> UTF-16LE
> UTF-32
> UTF-32BE
> UTF-32LE
> UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7 UTF-7 CSUNICODE11UTF7
> UCS-2-INTERNAL
> UCS-2-SWAPPED
> UCS-4-INTERNAL
> UCS-4-SWAPPED
> C99
> JAVA
> CP819 IBM819 ISO-8859-1 ISO-IR-100 ISO8859-1 ISO_8859-1 ISO_8859-1:1987 L1
> LATIN1 CSISOLATIN1
> ISO-8859-2 ISO-IR-101 ISO8859-2 ISO_8859-2 ISO_8859-2:1987 L2 LATIN2
> CSISOLATIN2
> ISO-8859-3 ISO-IR-109 ISO8859-3 ISO_8859-3 ISO_8859-3:1988 L3 LATIN3
> CSISOLATIN3
> ISO-8859-4 ISO-IR-110 ISO8859-4 ISO_8859-4 ISO_8859-4:1988 L4 LATIN4
> CSISOLATIN4
> CYRILLIC ISO-8859-5 ISO-IR-144 ISO8859-5 ISO_8859-5 ISO_8859-5:1988
> CSISOLATINCYRILLIC
> ARABIC ASMO-708 ECMA-114 ISO-8859-6 ISO-IR-127 ISO8859-6 ISO_8859-6
> ISO_8859-6:1987 CSISOLATINARABIC
> ECMA-118 ELOT_928 GREEK GREEK8 ISO-8859-7 ISO-IR-126 ISO8859-7 ISO_8859-7
> ISO_8859-7:1987 ISO_8859-7:2003 CSISOLATINGREEK
> HEBREW ISO-8859-8 ISO-IR-138 ISO8859-8 ISO_8859-8 ISO_8859-8:1988
> CSISOLATINHEBREW
> ISO-8859-9 ISO-IR-148 ISO8859-9 ISO_8859-9 ISO_8859-9:1989 L5 LATIN5
> CSISOLATIN5
> ISO-8859-10 ISO-IR-157 ISO8859-10 ISO_8859-10 ISO_8859-10:1992 L6 LATIN6
> CSISOLATIN6
> ISO-8859-11 ISO8859-11 ISO_8859-11
> ISO-8859-13 ISO-IR-179 ISO8859-13 ISO_8859-13 L7 LATIN7
> ISO-8859-14 ISO-CELTIC ISO-IR-199 ISO8859-14 ISO_8859-14 ISO_8859-14:1998 L8
> LATIN8
> ISO-8859-15 ISO-IR-203 ISO8859-15 ISO_8859-15 ISO_8859-15:1998 LATIN-9
> ISO-8859-16 ISO-IR-226 ISO8859-16 ISO_8859-16 ISO_8859-16:2001 L10 LATIN10
> KOI8-R CSKOI8R
> KOI8-U
> KOI8-RU
> CP1250 MS-EE WINDOWS-1250
> ANSI-1251 CP1251 MS-CYRL WINDOWS-1251
> CP1252 MS-ANSI WINDOWS-1252
> CP1253 MS-GREEK WINDOWS-1253
> CP1254 MS-TURK WINDOWS-1254
> CP1255 MS-HEBR WINDOWS-1255
> CP1256 MS-ARAB WINDOWS-1256
> CP1257 WINBALTRIM WINDOWS-1257
> CP1258 WINDOWS-1258
> 850 CP850 IBM850 CSPC850MULTILINGUAL
> 862 CP862 IBM862 CSPC862LATINHEBREW
> 866 CP866 IBM866 CSIBM866
> CP1131
> MAC MACINTOSH MACROMAN CSMACINTOSH
> MACCENTRALEUROPE
> MACICELAND
> MACCROATIAN
> MACROMANIA
> MACCYRILLIC
> MACUKRAINE
> MACGREEK
> MACTURKISH
> MACHEBREW
> MACARABIC
> MACTHAI
> HP-ROMAN8 R8 ROMAN8 CSHPROMAN8
> NEXTSTEP
> ARMSCII-8
> GEORGIAN-ACADEMY
> GEORGIAN-PS
> KOI8-T
> CP154 CYRILLIC-ASIAN PT154 PTCP154 CSPTCP154
> KZ-1048 RK1048 STRK1048-2002 CSKZ1048
> MULELAO-1
> CP1133 IBM-CP1133
> ISO-IR-166 TIS-620 TIS620 TIS620-0 TIS620.2529-1 TIS620.2533 TIS620.2533-0
> TIS620.2533-1
> CP874 WINDOWS-874
> VISCII VISCII1.1-1 CSVISCII
> TCVN TCVN-5712 TCVN5712-1 TCVN5712-1:1993
> ISO-IR-14 ISO646-JP JIS_C6220-1969-RO JP CSISO14JISC6220RO
> JISX0201-1976 JIS_X0201 X0201 CSHALFWIDTHKATAKANA
> ISO-IR-87 JIS0208 JIS_C6226-1983 JIS_X0208 JIS_X0208-1983 JIS_X0208-1990
> X0208 CSISO87JISX0208
> ISO-IR-159 JIS_X0212 JIS_X0212-1990 JIS_X0212.1990-0 X0212
> CSISO159JISX02121990
> CN GB_1988-80 ISO-IR-57 ISO646-CN CSISO57GB1988
> CHINESE GB_2312-80 ISO-IR-58 CSISO58GB231280
> CN-GB-ISOIR165 ISO-IR-165
> ISO-IR-149 KOREAN KSC_5601 KS_C_5601-1987 KS_C_5601-1989 CSKSC56011987
> EUC-JP EUCJP EXTENDED_UNIX_CODE_PACKED_FORMAT_FOR_JAPANESE
> CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE
> MS_KANJI PCK SHIFT-JIS SHIFT_JIS SJIS CSSHIFTJIS
> CP932
> ISO-2022-JP CSISO2022JP
> ISO-2022-JP-1
> ISO-2022-JP-2 CSISO2022JP2
> CN-GB EUC-CN EUCCN GB2312 CSGB2312
> GBK
> CP936 MS936 WINDOWS-936
> GB18030
> ISO-2022-CN CSISO2022CN
> ISO-2022-CN-EXT
> HZ HZ-GB-2312
> CNS11643 EUC-TW EUCTW CSEUCTW
> BIG-5 BIG-FIVE BIG5 BIGFIVE CN-BIG5 CSBIG5
> CP950
> BIG5-HKSCS:1999
> BIG5-HKSCS:2001
> BIG5-HKSCS:2004
> BIG5-HKSCS BIG5-HKSCS:2008 BIG5HKSCS
> 5601 EUC-KR EUCKR CSEUCKR
> CP949 UHC
> CP1361 JOHAB KO_KR.JOHAP92
> ISO-2022-KR CSISO2022KR
> 
> Is there still something wrong with iconv?

Looks quite normal. But is that the iconv that R is connecting to? You had an error that it couldn't convert latin1 to ASCII and both are on that list....

> I put the header in the <R home>/include.  Was that right?

Probably not. I would expect something like /usr/local/include, and maybe a -I option to make sure it was found before the Solaris-supplied one. Does make install (for iconv) not do that for you?

You may need to look into config.log and see exactly what is going wrong when configure fails the test about supported conversions. 

> Thanks again for your attention,
> Roger
> 
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