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Subject: installing Community 2018 gnatcoll on Debian vs -liconv
From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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I'm trying to install gnatcoll for Community 2018 on Debian from source, and it's complaining it can't find -liconv.

I need to install from source because the gnatcoll included in the binary install doesn't include the xref package. For some reason, the xref package requires -liconv.

I have previously installed gnatcoll gpl 2017, and it found -liconv with no problem; I don't understand what changed.

I can usually debug this sort of thing, but this one has me stumped. I managed to make it work on Windows!

Apparently in Debian iconv is provided by libc6 (although I can no longer find the web page I got that from); I have the libc6-dev package installed.

On the other hand, I can't find libiconv.a; I tried:

find /lib -name "*iconv*"
find /usr/lib -name "*iconv*"

nothing showed up.

Where is -liconv in Debian?