John Marino <gnugcc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to build gcc 4.6 without libiconv. My understanding is > that this library is only required for nls support and the java > frontend. I'm configuring with --disable-nls and I'm not building the > java language. > > I've tried --without-libiconv-prefix > I've tried --with-libiconv-prefix=no > I've tried setting with-libiconv-prefix to a directory where libiconv > doesn't exist. > > Yet the gcc/configure script keeps picking up -liconv. It exists in > the same library directory as libmpc, libmpfr, libgmp. > > So my questions are simple: > > 1) can somebody confirm libiconv isn't needed beyond nls and java? > 2) Is so, why is configure script still looking for it if those > options are disabled? > 3) if so, short of patching the configure script, how can gcc be told > to not link libiconv.so even if it finds it in a standard location? gcc will use iconv, if available, even if --disable-nls is used, to support the -finput-charset option. So the behaviour is as expected. Is it causing a problem? Ian
