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Subject: Re: installing Community 2018 gnatcoll on Debian vs -liconv
From: Michael Rohan <michael@zanyblue.com>
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Hi,

Related to GNAT 2018 and libiconv: I had to adjust my LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Ubuntu to include the lib/gps directory to support the ld.so libiconv.so dependency for gnatdoc.  Just fyi, not related to building from source.

Take care,
Michael.

On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 3:45:22 PM UTC-7, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 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?