Before going to trace anything I've compared sparky and my setup and it seems I've had forgotten libiconv library in /usr/local/lib and LD_LIBRARY_PATH contained this lib. So I've modified LD_LIBRARY_PATH to exclude /usr/local/lib and now surprisingly base configure fails with: checking for library containing iconv... no configure: error: iconv is required on non-Windows platforms make[1]: *** [libraries/base/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 see: http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/all/builders/kgardas%20head/builds/205/ste... When I've seen the code it's not so surprising that it fails in this way, what's in fact surprising to me is that sparky passes belong this point: checking for library containing iconv... none required configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating base.buildinfo config.status: creating include/HsBaseConfig.h [...] See: http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/head/builders/sparky%20head/builds/91/step... I'm sorry for starting this #91 build on sparky, but I'd like verify that it does not build older source-code than my buildbot. So now, the question is: is GNU iconv really required or if it's not, how to make my buildbot ignoring it as sparky's buldbot seems to be doing? Thanks, Karel Duncan Coutts wrote:
Dig into base/GHC/IO/Encoding/Iconv.hs mkTextEncoding function where it calls iconv_open, see what it's being called with.
In particular check if HAVE_LANGINFO_H is getting defined. If it's not then the code assumes GNU iconv.
PS: for reference, please have a look at http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/all/builders/kgardas%20head
See also the
http://darcs.haskell.org/buildbot/head/builders/sparky%20head
Which is running Solaris 10 on sparc and seems to be working fine.
Duncan