> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Any ideas how I might solve this? >>> >> >> Try putting -liconv into LDFLAGS. >> > > > Thank you, > > by the time I'd read your message, I'd realised there was a copy of > libiconv in /usr/local and given the appropiate flags to the configure > script > > --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local > > and it did build. > > But as far as I could tell, there is no libiconv as part of Solaris. So > if gcc needs it, the documentation should be updated to reflect this. You can get an up to date libiconv from blastwave.org : $ pkginfo -l CSWiconv PKGINST: CSWiconv NAME: libiconv - GNU libiconv is a Unicode conversion library CATEGORY: system ARCH: sparc VERSION: 1.13,REV=2009.05.26 BASEDIR: /opt/csw VENDOR: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv packaged for CSW by Dennis Clarke DESC: CSWiconv - GNU libiconv is a Unicode conversion library PSTAMP: mimas20090526031415 INSTDATE: May 28 2009 07:30 HOTLINE: http://wiki.blastwave.org/ EMAIL: dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx STATUS: completely installed FILES: 159 installed pathnames 74 shared pathnames 79 directories 5 executables 12463 blocks used (approx) other than that, you're sort of stuck. Sorry. We do what we can :-) -- Dennis Clarke