prob. with gettext libiconv circular dependancies in Darwin (Mac OS X)

[Gary Ebert]

Hello all:
I hope this is the right forum for this question.  I am trying to 
install gtk+ on Darwin 6.8 (Mac Os X 10.2.8) -- so I can install 
gnu-gradebook for my wife.  I have X-windows up and running fine and I 
think I have all of the rest of the prerequisites installed but I just 
can't get libiconv and gettext working.


After running configure I get the the following error:
checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or 
libiconv
So according to the documentation (for libiconv) I should make and 
install libiconv.  Then make and install gettext.  And finally make and 
install libiconv again (after doing a make distclean in libiconv).  So 
the long and the short of it is that it doesn't work.  I keep getting 
the same errors over and over again. The errors are included below.  Any 
help would be greatly appreciated!  I just don't know what is going 
wrong.  I've installed many other packages w/ no problem on this 
computer (and many others) but I just don't understand this one.

I do all of the builds etc. as root (not sudo'd for those of you who 
know what I mean)

Finally if this is the wrong forum for this problem please accept my 
apology and direct me to the correct forum!

Thanks in advance,

                Gary

--
Gary Ebert
Silver Spring, MD
garyebert@verizon.net


***********************errors begin

ok in libiconv (version 1.9.1)

./configure probs

checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
checking for iconv... (cached) no, consider installing GNU libiconv
checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no

make probs
none no errors no warnings

make install probs

ocalhost:local/src/libiconv-1.9.1] gary# make install
builddir="`pwd`"; cd libcharset && make all && make install-lib 
libdir="$builddir/lib" includedir="$builddir/lib"
cd lib && make all
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
cd lib && make all
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
cd lib && make install-lib libdir='/usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1/lib' 
includedir='/usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1/lib'
/bin/sh ../autoconf/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1/lib
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
libcharset.la /usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1/lib/libcharset.la
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/libcharset.1.0.0.dylib 
/usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1/lib/libcharset.1.0.0.dylib
/usr/bin/install: .libs/libcharset.1.0.0.dylib: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-lib] Error 71
make[1]: *** [install-lib] Error 2
make: *** [lib/localcharset.h] Error 2

huh?

I've also tried running configure with the prefix set to /usr/local (as 
opposed to /usr/local/src/libiconv-1.9.1) with the same results



now for gettext (version 0.14.1)
./configure probs
checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv
shows up several times

make probs
(cd .libs/libasprintf.lax/libstdc++.a && ar x /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.a)
. . .

/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
___eprintf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libasprintf.la] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1



make install probs
make install > fuugae.make.install
/usr/bin/install: .libs/libintl.3.4.0.dylib: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
___eprintf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libasprintf.la] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


obviously it is fruitless to try libiconv again


Thanks again