Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Chris Frey had to 
walk into mine and say:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:38:29AM -0800, Bill Paul wrote:
> > So I think you need to commit a copy of the config.rpath script to the
> > repository to make AM_ICONV work right.
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> I think config.rpath is a requirement on the system generating configure,
> but not for any system compiling from source.  I.e. compiling from a
> release tarball will not run into this problem, since I generate
> the configure script.

Before I found a copy of config.rpath, I ran a test where I just did:

% touch config.rpath
% ./buildgen.sh

That created the configure script, but the resulting script was not able to 
find libiconv even though I told it the right path with 
--with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local.

I could be wrong, but it looks like the generated configure script does not 
include config.rpath inside itself: it refers to it as an external file. 
Without having this script present, the autoconfiguration of iconv fails, 
because it doesn't actually generate a search path.

> My system has config.rpath located in /usr/share/gettext/config.rpath,
> and is part of the gettext package.
>
> This leads me to believe that in reality, building from CVS requires
> iconv + gettext.  Do you have gettext installed?  Is there a config.rpath
> somewhere on your system?

Yes, I have gettext installed (also as a package), I have config.rpath as 
/usr/local/share/gettext/config.rpath. I'm not sure why automake can't find 
it though.

-Bill

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