check the archives, it's come up many times before. IIRC it's a bug in the makefile somehow, and if you comment out the check in the makefile, so it doesn't check for iconv, it will still link to it properly and work.
simon
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
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.
-- $ 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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