#8567: Specify the location of iconv for 'gd'
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   Reporter:  drkirkby  |       Owner:  GeorgSWeber
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new        
   Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  sage-5.0   
  Component:  build     |    Keywords:             
     Author:            |    Upstream:  N/A        
   Reviewer:            |      Merged:             
Work_issues:            |  
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Comment(by drkirkby):

 Replying to [comment:3 hivert]:
 > Replying to [ticket:8567 drkirkby]:
 > > Since iconv was added to Sage (#8432) as a standard package (needing
 due to someone updating R without checking it fully), there have been some
 problems on Fedora and !OpenSuse which look to be related to problems
 building gd when there are two copies of iconv to be found on the system.
 >
 > First of all I have the same problem on Gentoo. Ther is also a report of
 someone having the same problem on Mandriva.
 >
 > I manage to get it work by the following workaround:
 > I replaced
 > {{{
 > $MAKE
 > }}}
 > by
 > {{{
 > LIBICONV="$SAGE_LOCAL"/lib/libiconv.so $MAKE
 > }}}
 > in spkg-install. I've no idea how robust this workaround is. I posted a
 spkg with the fix.
 >
 > Florent

 I've got no idea if setting LIBICOV shoudl be set, but if it is, the way
 to do it should be:
 {{{
 LIBICONV="$SAGE_LOCAL/lib/libiconv.so"
 }}}

 and not

 {{{
 LIBICONV="$SAGE_LOCAL"/lib/libiconv.so
 }}}

 Dave

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