This means that it would actually suffice to install gnulib's iconv module, IIRC. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2021-01/msg00036.html
HTH, Dima On 4 January 2023 10:56:13 WET, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: >On Jan 04 10:17:08, s...@spacehopper.org wrote: >> That comes from iconv.m4 in gettext-tools. IIRC it only needs to be >> installed and you don't need to do anything special to tell automake to find >> it. > >Yes, that was it - thank you. > >While here: > >$ env AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.71 AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.16 autoreconf -v >autoreconf-2.71: export WARNINGS= >autoreconf-2.71: Entering directory '.' >autoreconf-2.71: configure.ac: not using Gettext >[...] > >Apparently, autoreconf _is_ using gettext (namely, gettext's iconv.m4 >to parse th AM_ICONV macro), so what does 'not using Gettext' mean? > > Thanks again, > > Jan > > >> -- >> Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting. >> >> On 4 January 2023 07:52:55 Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: >> >> > Some third party software, e.g. wavpack, uses AM_ICONV >> > in its configure.ac when building from git. >> > >> > (I know we have a port that already comes with ./configure, >> > so this problem does not occur there.) >> > >> > I do have automake and the rest installed, >> > but autogen.sh complains that >> > >> > autoreconf-2.71: export WARNINGS= >> > autoreconf-2.71: Entering directory '.' >> > autoreconf-2.71: configure.ac: not using Gettext >> > autoreconf-2.71: running: aclocal >> > configure.ac:66: warning: macro 'AM_ICONV' not found in library >> > >> > Please excuse my ignorance: I know next to nothing about the auto* hell. >> > I do have libiconv installed, as well as the following: >> > >> > autoconf-2.69p3 >> > autoconf-2.71 >> > autoconf-archive-2022.09.03 >> > autogen-5.8.7p7 >> > automake-1.16.5 >> > metaauto-1.0p4 >> > >> > Is there something else I need to have >> > so that the AM_ICONV macro is recognized, >> > like the other AM_* stuff in configure.ac? >> > >> > Thank you, >> > >> > Jan >> >> >
