[R-SIG-Mac] Compiling R-2.9.1 from the source

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 13:14 , Benilton Carvalho wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was hoping to be to able to compile R-2.9.1 from the source as  
> I've always done.
>
> './configure' always worked nice, but now it fails to find 'iconv',  
> which is installed:
>
> bcarvalh$ which iconv
> /usr/bin/iconv
>
> bcarvalh$ iconv --version
> iconv (GNU libiconv 1.11)
> Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
> PURPOSE.
> Written by Bruno Haible.
>
>
> Here's what I get with ./configure
>
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking for iconv... no
> checking for iconvlist... no
> configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv is  
> not available
>
>
> I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8... any ideas on what I may be missing?  
> Or suggestions on what to report in order to try to find the source  
> of the problem?
>

Chances are that you may have some broken 3rd party iconv - do you  
have any custom stuff in /usr/local, /sw or similar hiding places? The  
right thing to report is config.log since that contains the reason why  
the iconv tests failed ...

Cheers,
Simon