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

[Benilton Carvalho]

meant to say LDFLAGS, not LIBS... thanks again, b

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Benilton Carvalho wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I didn't expect to have anything outside standard locations... but
> looking at config.log, I noticed it was looking for libiconv in /usr/
> local/lib (strange... but I do have libiconv* files there - I can't
> explain how).
>
> Setting CPPFLAGS and LIBS correctly fixed the problem.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> b
>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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