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Re: grep-2.7: build failure on systems with libiconv
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: grep-2.7: build failure on systems with libiconv |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:23:37 +0200 |
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When building grep-2.7 on a glibc system with GNU libiconv installed, the
> build fails with a link error:
...
> Here is a fix. $(LIBICONV) should be at the end of LDADD.
Thanks! I've applied that.
> Note that after applying this fix, I had to update src/Makefile.in by hand,
> because the automake/autoconf machinery refused to update anything, because
> the
> version of automake with which the release was packaged (automake-1.11a) is
> not
> a released version.
Yes, I did that deliberately.
I admit that it can impose a small burden on people who modify build
machinery and expect things to rebuild easily, but I think such people
generally have enough experience to be able to deal with the problem.
If not, they can check out the source and read the HACKING and README* files.