AxKit 1.6.1 Build Failure on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE

[Christopher H. Laco]

I recently went to upgrade a box that I haven't touched in a few months 
and I can't get AxKit to build. The os is FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, built 
yesterday, and the machine already has an old install of AxKit 1.6 
working. Yeah, I know, if it ain't broke; and ain't ain't a word. :-)

Initially, I ran portupgrade to build and upgrade the latest version.

The port in the FreeBSD ports collection is now marked as broken, so I 
commented that out just for giggles. That build failed with the error 
below. I then downloaded the 1.6.1 release from CPAN and attempted to 
build it and received thethe same errors.

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$ perl Makefile.PL
[snip]
checking for iconv() in -liconv... no
checking for libiconv() in -liconv... no
checking for iconv() in -lc... no
AxKit needs the iconv system library to work properly. This comes by
default with most Unix systems, however it may be that you do not
have the development libraries installed, or possibly that you just
don't have iconv available on your system. For *BSD systems, iconv
is available in your distribution's ports collection. For Win32
systems, a google search will often suffice to find a Win32 library
version.
--
Now, libiconv 1.9.1 is installed and located in my /usr/local/lib/, and 
AxKit 1.6 worked fine, so I'll assume this is some change in the 
detection scripts. I scanned Makefile.PL and saw no reference to iconv, 
nor do I understand much of the makefile kool-aid.

So, if someone could just point me in the right direction or to the 
right file, I'd like to try and fix it and send an updated ports 
Makefile to freebsd.org.

Thanks,
-=Chris


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