From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-04-15T08:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Having trouble getting iconv-0.5 ... on OS X (actually extconf.rb bug)

Quoteing nobu.nokada@softhome.net, on Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 03:17:45PM +0900:
> At Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:58:19 +0900,
> Sam Roberts wrote:
> > It appears that when extconf.rb looks for iconv(), the c file it
> > generates doesn't include <iconv.h>, so it never sees the define.
> You're right, remove second "iconv" from have_library.  I've
> forgotten that it's already done in 1.8 and shim.

Works like a charm, thank you very much.

> | Mon Mar 18 12:52:01 2002  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
> | 	* ext/iconv/extconf.rb: workaround for GNU libiconv.
> I remembered that iconv extension library is no longer
> maintained as sole package.  Now you can find the latest in
> standard package of development version, or shim package.
> 
>   <http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=shim-ruby16_18>

I will look at this.

Sam