Volunteer to add AC_CHECK_LIB() for iconv routines?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

Copyied from the newsgroup, in the hope that someone will
volunteer to add the appropriate checks to ./configure.in

I note with sympathy that the same article cited below says

 "Although they have many problems, and are hated by most of
  their users, Autotools are currently the best way to handle
  a multi-platform, adaptable building system."

Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>lutz <lu...@nu...> wrote:
>>
>>/usr/local/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
>>/usr/local/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
>>/usr/local/lib/libgd.so: undefined reference to `libiconv'
>
>On my machine these functions do not come
>from a separate libiconv* library; they are part of the locale
>support provided directly by glibc.

It turns out that this is a "well-known" difference between linux and
BSD-derived systems, something I learned only now via a NewsForge
article on portable configurations:
    http://programming.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/07/19/1713230

It suggests adding an AC_CHECK_LIB() macro to the configuration script 
that checks for the iconv routines.  Maybe we should do that.



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