As Uwe asked, please cite the original messages. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:10 PM, RogerP <rpick...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > Sorry, but IMHO saying "read the manual" does not constitute actual help. > > But here it is from the manual: > > A suitably comprehensive iconv function is essential. The R usage requires > iconv to be able to translate between "latin1" and "UTF-8", to recognize "" > (as the current encoding) and "ASCII", and to translate to and from the > Unicode wide-character formats "UCS-[24][BL]E" — this is true for glibc but > not of most commercial Unixes. However, you can make use of GNU libiconv > (possibly as a plug-in replacement: see > http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/). > > Well, that's just what I did. I downloaded libiconv and compiled and linked > it. Oh, so where to put it. Hmmmm, don't see it anywhere here. Do you? > The location isn't mentioned in Appendix A, which you cite a portion of above, but it is mentioned in Solaris section of Appendix C, which you cite below.
> Also from the manual: > > /You will need GNU libiconv and readline: the Solaris version of iconv is > not sufficiently powerful. > > For the Solaris Studio compilers a little juggling of paths was needed to > ensure GNU libiconv (in /usr/local) was used rather than the Solaris iconv: > This seems to indicate GNU libiconv should be installed in /usr/local, which is the location specified in the libiconv installation instructions: As usual for GNU packages: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local $ make $ make install Did you try the suggestion two paragraphs above this in Appendix C? "Some people have reported that the Solaris libintl needs to be avoided, for example by using --disable-nls or --with-included-gettext or using libintl from OpenCSW." > CC="cc -xc99" > CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" > F77=f95 > FFLAGS=-O4 > CXX="CC -library=stlport4" > CXXFLAGS=-O > FC=f95 > FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS > FCLIBS="-lfai -lfsu" > R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/opt/csw/gcc4/lib:/opt/csw/lib" > > For a 64-bit target add -m64 to the compiler macros and use something like > LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/sparcv9 or LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib/amd64 as > appropriate. / > > Well, I did that. Here are some of my options from the config.site: > <snip> > > So, here it is - all the revelent documentation on iconv. If I've missed > anything please let me know. If you see where in the documentation I missed > some cryptic clue on how to get iconv to work or where to put it or it's > headers, also please let me know. > Did you take the steps required to resolve the circular dependency between libiconv and gettext? > One things for sure - you can't say I've not read the documentation! > > Roger > Best, -- Joshua Ulrich | FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
