Re: [Devil-linux-develop] errors in 1.1.1 runtime: smbmount, hotplug

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >>smbmount: relocation error: /usr/lib/samba/charset/CP850.so: undefined symbol: smb_register_charset
> >
> >I did some google'ing on the error.  Someone on the samba list had the
> >same error, and the reply was:
> >
> >  ".. it should always work if you have libiconv installed. 
> >   Did configure detect libiconv and its headers?"
> >
> >I don't know what "libiconv" is, but it doesn't seem to be in /lib/ or
> >/usr/lib/ on my DL box.  Maybe we need it?
> >  
> >
> Yes this could be.
> Why isn't configure failing when this is not there..... :-(

It appears to be optional in configure.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libiconv/

  GNU libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems   
  which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to 
  Unicode. It supports all the important encodings in use today.

Sounds like we might need it...

 - BS