[R-SIG-Mac] libiconv missing for R-devel build

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 30/05/2012 1:29 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> On May 30, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> >  I haven't built R on Mac OS in a while, and now when I try the build fails with
> >
> >  mkdir ../../../../library/tools/libs
> >  dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _libiconv_open
> >   Referenced from: /Users/murdoch/R/R-devel/lib/libR.dylib
> >   Expected in: flat namespace
> >
> >  dyld: Symbol not found: _libiconv_open
> >   Referenced from: /Users/murdoch/R/R-devel/lib/libR.dylib
> >   Expected in: flat namespace
> >
> >  /bin/sh: line 1: 28203 Done                    echo "tools:::.install_package_description('.', '"../../../library/tools"')"
> >      28204 Trace/BPT trap          | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL ../../../bin/R --vanilla --slave>  /dev/null
> >  make[3]: *** [all] Error 133
> >  make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> >  make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> >  make: *** [R] Error 1
> >
> >
> >  Looking through the configure output, I see
> >
> >  checking iconv.h usability... yes
> >  checking iconv.h presence... yes
> >  checking for iconv.h... yes
> >  checking for iconv... no
> >  checking for iconvlist... no
> >  checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv
> >
> >  Can anyone let me know if the advice to install libiconv is really correct, and if so, how to do that?  I'm on OS X 10.6.8.
> >
>
> Are you sure you have Xcode properly installed and some 3rd party stuff doesn't interfere? This is what you get on a "vanilla" OS X:
>
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
>
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking for iconv... in libiconv
> checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1", "ASCII" and "UCS-*"... yes
> checking for iconvlist... yes
> checking for iconv... yes
> checking for iconv declaration...
>           extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
>
> iconv is part of the OS, so unless you have macports/fink or alike messing with you it shoudl work out of the box ... Check your config.log - it should tell you what's hitting you ..

Thanks!  It looks like it was fink in /sw.  I didn't intentionally 
install that; I'll have to try to figure out what I installed that also 
gave me fink.  Hopefully my backups will give me some clues.

Duncan