Re: "libiconv" package doesn't build under Solaris

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:58:19PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:18:06PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:41:51PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > The rules there seem to make a libiconv.la and then rename libiconv.so to
> > > preloadable_libiconv.so, getting around your observation above.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to just merge the different platform rules for now and do
> > exactly that OR disable the preload stuff for now.
> 
> It turns out that at least the Solaris/GCC case can easily be fixed
> by not using "libtool". My guess that the old "libtool" just didn't
> understand what it was supposed to do and simply passed all the
> options to "gcc". And that works absolutely fine.

I think I have to stand up for libtool: this is cruft is libiconv's
Makefile.in, not things that libtool invents for itself...

P