[R] Using iconv from glibc

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On May 14, 2015 4:13:28 PM PDT, "Smith, Virgil" <Virgil.Smith at flir.com> wrote:
>The R Installation and Administration manual section A.1 states that
>glibc should provide a suitable iconv function, but I can't get R's
>configure script to accept/validate iconv on a platform I need to
>support using glibc 2.20.
>
>Is glibc is actually compatible (or if gnu libiconv is essentially the
>only path)?
>
>If glibc should work, what should I check to troubleshoot my
>environment?
>
>The configure error I get is
>    checking iconv.h usability... yes
>    checking iconv.h presence... yes
>    checking for iconv.h... yes
>    checking for iconv... yes
>checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1", "ASCII" and
>"UCS-*"... no
>    configure: error: a suitable iconv is essential
>
>My full list of installed glibc / libc packages is
>    glibc-binary-localedata-en-gb - 2.20-r0
>    glibc-binary-localedata-en-us - 2.20-r0
>    glibc-gconv - 2.20-r0
>    glibc-gconv-utf-16 - 2.20-r0
>    glibc-locale-en-gb - 2.20-r0
>    libc6 - 2.20-r0
>    libc6-dev - 2.20-r0
>    libc6-extra-nss - 2.20-r0
>    libc6-thread-db - 2.20-r0
>
>
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