Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] libiconv-1.12 on Solaris 9 fails: xalloc_die

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Poor Yorick wrote on 2008-04-08 [1]: 
> libiconv-1.12 with gcc-4.2.2 on Solaris 9 fails:
> 
>       gcc -m32 -I/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/include
>       -I/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/libiconv-1.12/include
>       -I/usr/local/include -g -O2
>       -L/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/lib
>       -L/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/lib64 -I../srclib -I../srclib
>       -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DIN_RELOCWRAPPER -DNO_XMALLOC
>       -DINSTALLPREFIX="/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/libiconv-1.12"
>       -DINSTALLDIR="/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/libiconv-1.12/bin"
>       -DLIBPATHVAR="LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>       -DLIBDIRS="/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/libiconv-1.12/lib",
>       -DEXEEXT="" ../srclib/relocwrapper.c ../srclib/progname.c
>       ../srclib/progreloc.c ../srclib/xreadlink.c ../srclib/areadlink.c
>       ../srclib/readlink.c ../srclib/canonicalize-lgpl.c ../srclib/malloca.c
>       ../srclib/relocatable.c ../srclib/setenv.c ../srclib/strerror.c
>       ../srclib/c-ctype.c -o
>       /path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/libiconv-1.12/bin/iconv.wrapper
> 
>       /var/tmp//cc2i8guQ.o: In function `xreadlink':
>       
> /path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/src/libiconv-1.12/libiconv-1.12/src/../srclib/xreadlink.c:42:
>  undefined reference to `xalloc_die'
>       collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>       make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>       make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/path/to/sparc-32-solaris_nc/bootstrap/src/libiconv-1.12/libiconv-1.12/src'
>       make: *** [install] Error 2
> 
> Any ideas on the best way to get past this error?

You can get over it by omitting --enable-relocatable.

This was fixed in gnulib on 2007-12-24. The fix is contained in libiconv 1.13,
which is available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.tar.gz .

Thanks for the report.

Bruno

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-libiconv/2008-04/msg00010.html