Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Problems building a 64-bit iconv on Solaris x86

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17:16PM CEST:
> >>>A log file of a 64-bit failed build on host 'fulvia' running Solaris 10 
> >>>update 5
> >>>05/2008 can be seen here
> >>>
> >>>http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/9718/iconv-1.13.1.p2.log

> >>>http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/9718/config.log
[...]

> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#ix86-x-solaris210
> 
> GCC builds 64-bit applications fine on Solaris. It supports the
> "-m64" flag to make 64-bit binaries.
> 
> I have now managed to build iconv 64-bit on Solaris x86, though that
> was with the aid of Ralf Wildenhues, a libtool developer. He told me
> what commands to run manually, and the library built.
> 
> I think Ralf might concede this is a libtool bug, and since iconv
> uses libtool, the bug come from there. But I will let Ralf comment
> on that. (I've cc'ed Ralf).

I haven't said that this is a bug in Libtool; it probably isn't.
I don't yet know whose bug it is, though, and people use Libtool as
kitchen sink for workarounds for oodles of bugs[1], so it might be
prudent to do that in this case, too.  Even if it isn't a bug *in
Libtool* per se.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] Some also come back later when the bug is fixed upstream and claim
that Libtool is buggy in that it works around a bug ...