[Fink-beginners] fink selfupdate & libiconv...

[Emilie Vanvyve]

Hello,

I try to selfupdate Fink on my Mac computer (Mac OS X v10.3.3) but I'm in troubles with the library 'libiconv'. If I have clearly understood, this library shoud be (re)installed by the Fink selfupdate. But each times it tries, it fails. This makes that I can even not install other packages (like Emacs21 — which is the one I would like to install finally !), because they also fail on the library. I tried to install this library apart, but it does not work also, for the same reasons as explained here after.

To update Fink, I type 'fink selfupdate' in my Terminal window and get this :

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nino ~ > fink selfupdate
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate
rsync -az -q  rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.

rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.3/' --include='10.3/stable/' --include='10.3/stable/main/' --include='10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.3/' --include='10.3/stable/' --include='10.3/stable/crypto/' --include='10.3/stable/crypto/finkinfo/' --include='10.3/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.3/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*' --include='10.3/stable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --exclude='**' 'rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/'
/usr/bin/find '/sw/fink/10.3/stable/main' -name CVS -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf
/usr/bin/find '/sw/fink/10.3/stable/crypto' -name CVS -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf
Reading package info...
Updating package index... done.
Information about 1599 packages read in 6 seconds.
The following 10 packages will be installed or updated:
dpkg gettext gettext-bin gettext-dev libiconv-bin libiconv-dev ncurses
ncurses-dev ncurses-shlibs unzip
gzip -dc /sw/src/libiconv-1.9.1.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions 
./configure --prefix=/sw --mandir=/sw/share/man

Then, it goes on with classic 'checking' message of the 'configure' script. In the end of the configuration part, I get the 4 line here below and then 'make' starts :

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
make

I then get lots of common messages and it finishes with :

mkdir -p -- /sw/src/root-libiconv-1.9.1-11/sw/bin
case "darwin7.4.0" in \
hpux* | freebsd*) gcc  `if test -n ''; then  /sw/src/root-libiconv-1.9.1-11/sw/bin; fi` iconv.o ../srclib/libicrt.a -L/sw/src/root-libiconv-1.9.1-11/sw/lib -liconv -L/sw/lib -lintl -liconv -o iconv;; \
*) /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  `if test -n ''; then  /sw/src/root-libiconv-1.9.1-11/sw/bin; fi` iconv.o ../srclib/libicrt.a ../lib/libiconv.la -L/sw/lib -lintl -liconv -R/sw/lib -o iconv;; \
esac
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/sw/lib/libiconv.la'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
### execution of make failed, exit code 2
Failed: installing libiconv-1.9.1-11 failed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nino ~ > 

I do not know what's up with 'libiconv.la'.
I found this file in other directories and once tried to copy it to "/sw/lib/" (as 'make' would like to find it there), but I then get other troubles after.

Does anyone have any idea ? I can send the whole standard output of the 'make' script if it can help. I haven't done it here to be clearer.

Thansk in advance for any advise !

Emilie
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</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>Emilie VANVYVE
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