Dennis Clarke wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Any ideas how I might solve this?
Try putting -liconv into LDFLAGS.
Thank you,
by the time I'd read your message, I'd realised there was a copy of
libiconv in /usr/local and given the appropiate flags to the configure
script
--with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local
and it did build.
But as far as I could tell, there is no libiconv as part of Solaris. So
if gcc needs it, the documentation should be updated to reflect this.
You can get an up to date libiconv from blastwave.org :
Thank you. I found I seem to have a directory /usr/lib/iconv on Suns. I
was trying to find a way to build a gcc which required the least
dependancies as possible.
The maths program Sage
yes, I know it well. Or at least I know of your pains.
http://www.sagemath.org/
does not currently build easily on Solaris.
no kidding. :-(
It's possible, but a
nightmare, and fails certain tests. The Sage team have taken the stop of
basically including *everyone* one needs to get Sage running. So if it
need some library 'foobar', rather than you download it, Sage includes
the source to foobar, along with any patches that might be needed to get
it configured to suite Sage.
Since on Solaris, it is finicky about the compiler, the plan is to
actually produce a package for Sage which builds gcc the way needed.
Hence I was looking for a way to build gcc using the bare minimum of
dependancies.
like so ?
$ /opt/csw/gcc4/bin/gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Configured with: ../gcc-4.3.3/configure --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/opt/csw/bin/gas --with-gnu-ld --with-ld=/opt/csw/bin/gld
--with-cpu=v7 --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --prefix=/opt/csw/gcc4
--with-local-prefix=/opt/csw --enable-shared --enable-multilib
--with-included-gettext --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/csw --with-system-zlib
--with-gmp=/opt/csw --with-mpfr=/opt/csw
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,ada --enable-bootstrap
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC)
Libiconv is not listed as a prequisite for gcc, which initially I
thought was a mistake, as I could not find it on my Sun. But it appears
to be in a directory /usr/lib/iconv. I've not tried linking against the
files in there - I'd already done it for iconv in /usr/local/lib, but
I'd rather not have to download libiconv unless it is really necessary,
which it may well not be.
good luck with that and let me know how you proceed , I really do want to
know.