> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> 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 : > > Thank you. I found I seem to have a directory /usr/lib/iconv on Suns. I > was trying to find a way to build a gcc which required the least > dependancies as possible. > > The maths program Sage yes, I know it well. Or at least I know of your pains. > > http://www.sagemath.org/ > > does not currently build easily on Solaris. no kidding. :-( > It's possible, but a > nightmare, and fails certain tests. The Sage team have taken the stop of > basically including *everyone* one needs to get Sage running. So if it > need some library 'foobar', rather than you download it, Sage includes > the source to foobar, along with any patches that might be needed to get > it configured to suite Sage. > > Since on Solaris, it is finicky about the compiler, the plan is to > actually produce a package for Sage which builds gcc the way needed. > Hence I was looking for a way to build gcc using the bare minimum of > dependancies. like so ? $ /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 Configured with: ../gcc-4.3.3/configure --with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/csw/bin/gas --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/opt/csw/bin/gld --with-cpu=v7 --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --prefix=/opt/csw/gcc4 --with-local-prefix=/opt/csw --enable-shared --enable-multilib --with-included-gettext --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/csw --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/opt/csw --with-mpfr=/opt/csw --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,ada --enable-bootstrap Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) $ ldd -r /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc libiconv.so.2 => /opt/csw/lib/libiconv.so.2 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 /usr/platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/lib/libc_psr.so.1 see the libiconv there ? > Libiconv is not listed as a prequisite for gcc, which initially I > thought was a mistake, as I could not find it on my Sun. But it appears > to be in a directory /usr/lib/iconv. I've not tried linking against the > files in there - I'd already done it for iconv in /usr/local/lib, but > I'd rather not have to download libiconv unless it is really necessary, > which it may well not be. good luck with that and let me know how you proceed , I really do want to know. -- Dennis Clarke
