[Samba] iconv not working on Sparc Solaris 8

[Graeme Hindmarsh]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. I changed the order of my PATH and added an entry
for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and this seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks
Again

Graeme 

-----Original Message-----
From: Håkan Stefansson [mailto:ste at algonet.se] 
Sent: 25 March 2005 18:29
To: Graeme Hindmarsh
Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] iconv not working on Sparc Solaris 8

Graeme Hindmarsh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed gettext using the configure --with-libiconv-prefix={dir}
> I then reinstalled libiconv, following make distclean, but there was no
> configure option to point to the gettext lib.
> 
> I then recompiled samba but have had the same result and iconv is still
not
> working.
> 
> Is there something that I am doing wrong or missing out, do I need to set
> LDFLAGS or any other environment variables?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Graeme

I see from your configure output below that iconv was found in /usr/lib.
This is Sun's iconv, that doesn't work with samba. Was that configure 
run before or after you installed libiconv in /usr/local? What did your 
latest samba configure say about this?

My samba 3.0.12 with working libiconv support runs under Solaris 7. I am 
using gcc 3.x.y, GNU make and Sun's linker. I also use 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib and in my PATH I have /usr/local/bin 
before /usr/bin and /usr/ccs/bin. I don't remember what configure 
options I used for libiconv and gettext.

I'm afraid I can't give you much better info about my setup until I'm 
back at work on Tuesday.

Håkan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Håkan Stefansson [mailto:ste at algonet.se] 
> Sent: 25 March 2005 12:50
> To: Graeme Hindmarsh
> Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: [Samba] iconv not working on Sparc Solaris 8
> 
> Graeme Hindmarsh wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>> 
>>
>>I am trying to compile Samba 3.0.13 but when I run configure I get the
>>following in the output.
>>
>> 
>>
>>checking for iconv in /usr/lib... yes
>>
>>checking can we convert from CP850 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from IBM850 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from ASCII to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from 646 to UCS2-LE?... 646
>>
>>checking can we convert from UTF-8 to UCS2-LE?... UTF-8
>>
>>checking for iconv in /usr/local/lib... yes
>>
>>checking can we convert from CP850 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from IBM850 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from ASCII to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from 646 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from UTF-8 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>checking can we convert from UTF8 to UCS2-LE?... no
>>
>>configure: WARNING: Sufficient support for iconv function was not found.
>>
>>    Install libiconv from http://freshmeat.net/projects/libiconv/ for
> 
> better
> 
>>cha
>>
>>rset compatibility!
>>
>> 
>>
>>I have compiled from source and installed libiconv-1.9.2 in /usr/local but
>>it just does not seem to work.
>>
>>Without iconv Samba will just fill up its log files with character
>>conversion errors and generally not work.
>>
>> 
>>
>>I have tried libiconv-1.9.1, libiconv-1.8 and Samba 3.0.11.
>>
>>GNU gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.4.2
>>
>> 
>>
>>Can anybody help?
>>
>> 
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Graeme
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> There is a mutual dependency between libiconv and GNU gettext. That is, 
> gettext is needed to get libiconv to work while gettext neeeds libiconv. 
> (IIRC this is mentioned in a README or INSTALL file.)
> 
> I have tested the following procedure on Solaris 7 and 9 with various 
> versions of samba 3.0.x, most recently with samba 3.0.12 under Solaris 
> 7. (Sorry, I don't remember what libiconv and gettext versions I used 
> and can't check now as I'm at home.)
> 
> 1. Install libiconv from source
> 2. Install gettext fron source
> 3. Remove (make distclean) libiconv and reinstall it
> 
> Then you will need to reinstall samba with the configure parameter 
> --with-libiconv=/usr/local (assuming the libraries are in /usr/local/lib)
> 
> Håkan Stefansson
> 








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