On 2010-Jan-28 18:47:52 +1100, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >At least with Sage 4.3.1, the build would fail when compiling the Sage >library. In Sage 4.3.2.alpha0, R is upgraded to version 2.10.1, which >requires iconv as documented in the R release note [1]. On t2.math, >the iconv library under /usr/include and /usr/lib is not sufficient >for getting R to build. The issue of getting GNU iconv on Solaris is >tracked at ticket #3381 [2] and closed as "wontfix". Now that iconv is >a requirement for building R, I think there is a strong case for >installing GNU iconv on t2.math. With R 2.10.1, one can no longer use >the configure options --with-iconv=no and --without-iconv. This not >only affects Solaris, but also Mac OS X. For Mac OS X, the following >line in the spkg-install of the R spkg
I ran into a similar problem compiling Sage 4.3 with FreeBSD. In theory, that's not a real problem because GNU make pulls in GNU iconv as a prerequisite. In practice, it needs a fix (#7833) because the iconv configure script is broken. In the short term, GNU iconv probably needs to be added as a Sage prerequisite (which means installing it on t2). In the longer term, it might be worthwhile looking at why the Solaris iconv is inadequate for R and whether R can be adapted to use Solaris iconv. -- Peter Jeremy
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