Re: libiconv and gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Warren L Dodge wrote on 2001-04-09:

> The latest is when configuring gnuplot I fail the -lnsl and -lsocket
> checks. Then when building gnuplit I get fatal errors in linking

> seems that the configure test ends up using -lintl
> somehow. In my setup libintl uses libiconv_open and one other
> routine. The problem is the configure script does not find libiconv.

Sounds like gnuplot's Makefile doesn't use @address@hidden The
documentation recommends to use this variable. In your case, it would
expand to "-lintl -liconv".

> This happens on my solaris 2.5.1 system but not on the solaris 8
> system.

I think newer Solaris systems keep track themselves which shared
library depends on which other shared library; therefore "-lintl" is
sufficient in this case.

Bruno