problems with iconv

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A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires
iconv to be able to translate between "latin1" and "UTF-8", to recognize
""
(as the current encoding) and "ASCII", and to translate to and from the
Unicode wide-character formats "UCS-[24][BL]E" ? this is true for glibc
but
not of most commercial Unixes. However, you can make use of GNU libiconv
(possibly as a plug-in replacement: see
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).

Well, that's just what I did. ?I downloaded libiconv and compiled and
linked
it. ?Oh, so where to put it. ?Hmmmm, don't see it anywhere here. ?Do you?

The location isn't mentioned in Appendix A, which you cite a portion
of above, but it is mentioned in Solaris section of Appendix C, which
you cite below.

Also from the manual:

/You will need GNU libiconv and readline: the Solaris version of iconv is
not sufficiently powerful.

For the Solaris Studio compilers a little juggling of paths was needed to
ensure GNU libiconv (in /usr/local) was used rather than the Solaris
iconv:

This seems to indicate GNU libiconv should be installed in /usr/local,
which is the location specified in the libiconv installation
instructions:

As usual for GNU packages:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install

Did you try the suggestion two paragraphs above this in Appendix C?
"Some people have reported that the Solaris libintl needs to be
avoided, for example by using --disable-nls or --with-included-gettext
or using libintl from OpenCSW."

As it turns out I put iconv and libiconv.so and libiconv.so.2.5.1 in
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. ?Just for grins I copied these files to
/usr/local and tried again with the same results.

This is my configure statement:

./configure --with-blas=-library=sunperf --with-lapack --with-readline=no
--x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --prefix=/usr/local
--disable-nls ?--with-included-gettext

So, yes, I did try the suggestions mentioned in Appendix C.

? ? CC="cc -xc99"
? ? CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee"
? ? F77=f95
? ? FFLAGS=-O4
? ? CXX="CC -library=stlport4"
? ? CXXFLAGS=-O
? ? FC=f95
? ? FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS
? ? FCLIBS="-lfai -lfsu"
? ? R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/opt/csw/gcc4/lib:/opt/csw/lib"

For a 64-bit target add -m64 to the compiler macros and use something like
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 or LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/amd64 as
appropriate. /

Well, I did that. Here are some of my options from the config.site:

<snip>

So, here it is - all the revelent documentation on iconv. ?If I've missed
anything please let me know. ?If you see where in the documentation I
missed
some cryptic clue on how to get iconv to work or where to put it or it's
headers, also please let me know.

Did you take the steps required to resolve the circular dependency
between libiconv and gettext?

I used the --disable-nls ?and --with-included-gettext options. ?I also
downloaded the more up-to-date cairo package.

BTW, is there a program I can run to test my iconv binary? ?I think that
would rule out any problem with the compilation.

Thanks for you suggestions and for any future help. ?This is frustrating
because I have compiled R, just not with a workable iconv, which prevents me
from updating and adding packages.

Roger