I wrote this question then found out where the problem was, so this
is just for the archives...
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I've compiled PHP 5.0.4 successfully on OS X 10.4.2, but I'm getting
a weird problem with iconv. I specified it in my configure line:
--with-iconv
and it seems to pick it up ok while configuring:
checking for iconv support... yes
checking for libiconv in -liconv... yes
checking if iconv is Konstantin Chuguev's... no
checking if iconv supports errno... yes
It builds OK too. php thinks that the iconv extension is there:
> php -m|grep iconv
iconv
The entry in phpinfo() is rather suspicious:
iconv support => enabled
iconv implementation => unknown
iconv library version => unknown
Then in one script I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function iconv()
and function_exists('iconv') returns false.
I've also tried specifying --with-iconv=/sw (i.e. using
libiconv-1.9.2-11 from fink), but I get the same results.
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The solution lies in the user notes for iconv() where someone mentions:
"elk at NOSPAMmodel-fx dot com
26-Jul-2002 04:07
If you use the libiconv library instead of the libc's iconv support,
don't forget to use libiconv() instead of iconv()"
And it really is as simple as that - just substitute libiconv() for
iconv() - it seems that libiconv is the default on OS X. I think this
is a terrible implementation (clearly PHP itself is confused by it, 3
years on from this note) and I've no idea why it was done that way,
but now at least someone can find out easily.
Marcus
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