From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T19:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Having trouble getting iconv-0.5 ... on OS X (actually extconf.rb bug)

Hi,

At Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:31:34 +0900,
Sam Roberts wrote:
> > > Note that it found /usr/local/include/iconv.h, but failed to find iconv(), and
> > > yet still created the Makefile. Why?
> > 
> > Some platforms don't need any additional libraries to use
> > iconv(), because they have it in libc.
> 
> Sure, but isn't that what extconf.rb is checking, whether you need
> -liconv?

Yes, on such systems, -liconv isn't needed.

> Anynow, I went back to having my iconv installed in /sw (kind of the
> /opt of the OS X world). It allows iconv.h to be found, but the
> extconf.rb still isn't figuring out that it needs -liconv, but it works
> when I specify -liconv in the USER_LIBS.

Can't you show me the mkmf.log?

> [ensemble] ~/p/ruby/download/iconv-0.5 $ ruby extconf.rb --with-iconv-dir=/sw

Sorry, I forgot `with'.

-- 
Nobu Nakada