Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Error installing libiconv-1.13.1 on solaris 9

[Gene LeDuc]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I'm trying to install libiconv-1.13.1 on a solaris 9 system that 
> > currently has v1.9 installed, but I run into an error during both 'make 
> > check' and 'make install'. ...
> >
> > I'm using
> >    ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
> >    make
> >    make check
> >    make install prefix=/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
>
> Modifying the prefix variable at install time, after a different prefix has
> already been hardwired into the shared libraries and executables, is not
> supported. (It is also not mentioned in the INSTALL.generic file.)
>
> If you want to install the package in /opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
> you can do it like this:
>
>     ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
>     make
>     make check
>     make install
>
> If you want to have it in both /opt/local and 
> /opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1,
> you can configure and install it twice; but be sure to do "make distclean"
> in between.
>
> If you want to use a "staged" installed, you can either use the DESTDIR
> variable or the GNU source installer by Claudio Fontana. But this may not work
> right if you have an older version of GNU libiconv installed (due to the way the
> linker works on some platforms). So in this case better install the newer
> libiconv first, then "make distclean", then you can do the staged install.
>
> Bruno

We've been using stow for many years to distribute binaries to our 
various servers and the way that I've found that works best is
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
  make
  make install prefix=/opt/local/software/packagename

The distribution package gets put into /opt/local/software/packagename 
and then stow links it into /opt/local, which is first in our executable 
search path.  This works without any tweaking about 95% of the time. 
When it needs tweaking, it just involves moving subdirectories in the 
distribution tree up 2 levels.

I'll try DESTDIR, but it seems to me that I've tried it in the past and 
it didn't produce stowable results.

Thanks,
Gene