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

[Gene LeDuc]

Dago, thanks for your reply on this.  I'll go ahead and do the install 
and see what happens!

Regards,
Gene

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Gene,
>
> Am 20.11.2009 um 18:37 schrieb Gene LeDuc:
> > 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'd appreciate any tips you can give me on how to fix this.  I've 
> > attached my config.log in case it might shed any light.
> >
> > I'm using
> >  ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
> >  make
> >  make check
> >  make install prefix=/opt/local/software/libiconv-1.13.1
> >
> > 'configure' works fine
> >
> > 'make' works fine
> >
> > 'make check' produces 3 segfaults:
> > > make check-extra
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/local/src/lib/libiconv-1.13.1/tests'
> > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-extra'.
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/src/lib/libiconv-1.13.1/tests'
> > > ./check-translit . Quotes UTF-8 ISO-8859-1
> > > ./check-translit . Quotes UTF-8 ASCII
> > > ./check-translit . Translit1 ISO-8859-1 ASCII
> > > ./check-translitfailure . TranslitFail1 ISO-8859-1 ASCII
> > > ./check-subst
> > > Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > > Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > > Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > > ./test-shiftseq
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/src/lib/libiconv-1.13.1/tests'
>
> These coredumps are an error in Solaris and can be safely ignored. You can see 
> a working
> example of a package build description from OpenCSW at
>   
> <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/libiconv/trunk/Makefile>
>
> It says there
>
> > 45      # 'gmake test' shows three errors of coredumping printf's
> > 46      #
> > 47      #   ./check-translitfailure . TranslitFail1 ISO-8859-1 ASCII
> > 48      #   ./check-subst
> > 49      #   Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > 50      #   Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > 51      #   Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > 52      #   ./test-shiftseq
> > 53      #
> > 54      # This is due to bug #6550204
> > 55      #   http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6550204-1
> > 56      # and can safely be ignored as it is a failure in the testsuite.
>
> You need contract to view this or you can look at the corresponding bug in 
> OpenSolaris:
>   <http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6550204>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>   -- Dago