Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Error installing libiconv-1.13.1 on solaris 9

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

> I'm trying to install libiconv-1.13.1 on a solaris 9 system that 
> currently has v1.9 installed, but I run into an error during both 'make 
> check' and 'make install'. ...
> 
> I'm using
>    ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
>    make
>    make check
>    make install prefix=/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1

Modifying the prefix variable at install time, after a different prefix has
already been hardwired into the shared libraries and executables, is not
supported. (It is also not mentioned in the INSTALL.generic file.)

If you want to install the package in /opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
you can do it like this:

    ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
    make
    make check
    make install

If you want to have it in both /opt/local and 
/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1,
you can configure and install it twice; but be sure to do "make distclean"
in between.

If you want to use a "staged" installed, you can either use the DESTDIR
variable or the GNU source installer by Claudio Fontana. But this may not work
right if you have an older version of GNU libiconv installed (due to the way the
linker works on some platforms). So in this case better install the newer
libiconv first, then "make distclean", then you can do the staged install.

Bruno