Problems installing glib. libiconv not used?

[moriar]

Hi, has anyone have any experience with the following?

I have a funny error upon attempting to install glib-2.11.1 which I obtained from the following location:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.11/

Similar errors were found when attempting to install glib-2.9.2 and glib 2.8.6.

libiconv version 1.9.2 was obtained from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/...v-1.9.2.tar.gz and was an installation requirement for glib installation.

Basically, after installation of libiconv and attempting to install glib, I got the following error:

>./configure
okay.

>make
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION -pthread -g -O2 -Wall -MT gconvert.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gconvert.Tpo -c gconvert.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gconvert.o
gconvert.c:47:2: error: #error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv
make[4]: *** [gconvert.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.9.6/glib'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.9.6/glib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.9.6/glib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.9.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Similarly:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GLib\" -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGLIB_COMPILATION -pthread -g -O2 -Wall -MT gconvert.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/gconvert.Tpo -c gconvert.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/gconvert.o
gconvert.c:47:2: error: #error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is from libiconv
make[4]: *** [gconvert.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.11.1/glib'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.11.1/glib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.11.1/glib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/usr1/bin/glib/glib-2.11.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2


However, I did install libiconv. And the make and make install from libiconv has created
files such as /usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so in the lib directories which I am hoping means that the library has been included.

I tried googling for similar errors that others may have faced before but I could not find any precedence. Also, unfortunately, I could not spot any clues from the installation guide either.

I am using Mandriva Power Pack 2006.

Can anyone please help to give me hints on resolving this ?

Thanks for giving this your kind attention !

[keenerd]

I had the same issue under Vector Linux 5.1 standard.

Read
http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gl...-building.html

Installing the latest libiconv and compiling glib with
./configure --with-libiconv
did the trick for me.

[moriar]

Thanks for the reply!

I had not looked into it for sometime already and had nearly abandoned all hope.

I'll definitely give this a shot and see how it works.

Cheers again!

[xxqq]

There are 2 versions of iconv on your system.
1. Built in from GCC / libc.
2. Standalone from libiconv.

Try to run "updatedb" and "locate iconv.h"

Make sure your program access the correct version of iconv.h and library.
Perhaps you can rename the wrong iconv.h during compile (temporary).

Or you can use options during ./configure:

./configure --help | grep -i iconv

[RuLa]

thanks keenerd, I did that as you said, and it worked!
but now, when I'm tryin to install the next package, PANGO, I get this:

./configure
...
checking FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include  
checking FONTCONFIG_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig  
checking for freetype-config... /usr/local/bin/freetype-config
checking for FT_Get_Next_Char in -lfreetype... yes
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.3... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
*** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
configure: error:
*** Glib 2.1.3 or better is required. The latest version of
*** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.

any suggestions? I have installed GLIB 2.12.0, but it says that I don't have it..

[ahafeel]

After much huffing & puffing I finally managed to install Glib on vector. The trick is to uninstall Glib first. Then configure glib with the "--with -libiconv" option. Remember after installing libiconv you need to install gettext and reinstall libiconv again. Read the libiconv site for more installation tips. Hope this helps. BTW I'm a newbie.