Re: Error in GNUStep install

[John Bleichert]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Adam Fedor wrote:

> On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:27 AM, John Bleichert wrote:
> > The errors preceding this notice were:
> >
> > Making all for tool autogsdoc...
> >  Linking tool autogsdoc ...
> > ../Source/shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
> > `libiconv_open'
> > ../Source/shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to 
> > `libiconv_close'
> > ../Source/shared_obj/libgnustep-base.so: undefined reference to `libiconv'
> >
> > I have libiconv 1.9.1 installed, which seems to be the latest one 
> > available from gnu.org. This install was attmepted using the 
> > InstallGNUstep script, I shall try build GNUstep from scratch.
>
> You should uninstall libiconv. It's not needed on any system that uses glibc 
> (i.e. almost and Linux or BSD based system).  GNUstep is probably getting 
> confused by the multiple iconv header and library files.

Hmm. Well, I removed libiconv from my system (Slackware 9.1) and still got 
exactly the same error. However, I grabbed the source packages (back, 
base, gui and make) and everything built fine. If you need or want any 
other sysinfo let me know.

Thanks - JB

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