I've experienced a similar problem under i386 solaris, see http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2009-June/017376.html The problem seems to be the file /usr/local/include/iconv.h without a corresponding library. HTH Christian Karel Gardas wrote:
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