Re: [Bug-wget] Problems with (not) building wget against libiconv

[Tim Rühsen]

Hi Mojca,

On 04/18/2017 04:27 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 16 April 2017 at 18:54, Tim Rühsen wrote:
>>
>> Please make sure, you test with latest wget git.
> 
> I have some problems with bootstrapping.
> 
> On Solaris it's:
> 
>> ./bootstrap
> ./bootstrap: syntax error at line 91: `me_=$' unexpected

I experience this as well and use 'bash ./bootstrap'.
Just pushed a commit to mention this in README.checkout.

> On Mac it's:
> 
> sed: 1: "lib/unicase/special-cas ...": extra characters at the end of l 
> command
> ./bootstrap: bootstrap_post_import_hook failed

The 'sed' command used in 'bootstrap.conf' seems to be incompatible to
GNU sed. Just pushed a commit to make this more portable. Please test
and report.

> After that the build succeeds, but it's linking against libiconv
> (contrary to --without-libiconv-prefix):
> 
>> otool -L wget
> wget:
> /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
> version 125.2.11)
> 
> On Mac that should be OK (I hope), but on Solaris there is no libiconv
> by default.
> 
> I copiled a folder with bootstrapped wget to the Solaris box, but as
> expected I ended up with:
> 
>> ldd src/wget
>         libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
>         libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
>         librt.so.1 =>    /lib/librt.so.1
>         libiconv.so.2 =>         /opt/csw/lib/libiconv.so.2
>         libunistring.so.2 =>     /opt/csw/lib/libunistring.so.2
>         ...
> 
> And having libraries from /opt/csw there is simply not acceptable
> since the binaries won't work on machines without OpenCSW installed.
> 
> So my next question would be: how can I get rid of dependency on libiconv?
> 
> I didn't have this problem in version 1.17.1.

I'll have a look into this.

Regards, Tim

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