Hello,
This is my first contact and mail with bash mailing list, to summarize
i'm a coder maintening a personnal home server using several GNU tools
since the late 90's.
I configure BASH-4.2.0 in a chroot jail (gcc 4.5.2/libc 2.13/binutils
2.21/make 3.82) with an athlon architecture on ext3 FS with
--enable-static-link --with-libiconv-prefix=/ and, as root, and notice
the configure script can't find the jail's static libiconv :
[root@pompomgalli] mkdir bash-4.2_static_build && cd
bash-4.2_static_build
[root@pompomgalli] ../bash-4.2_static/configure --prefix=/
--without-bash-malloc --with-curses --enable-static-link
--with-libiconv-prefix=/
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Beginning configuration for bash-4.2-release for i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /bin/ld
checking if the linker (/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for __argz_count... yes
checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
checking for __fsetlocking... yes
checking for iconv... no, consider installing GNU libiconv
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking for bison... bison
checking version of bison... 2.4.3, ok
[root@pompomgalli]
I then check if the libiconv library was accessible :
[root@pompomgalli] # ls -ld /lib/libiconv.* /lib
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 12288 Apr 3 12:14 /lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1233398 Apr 3 12:14 /lib/libiconv.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 917 Apr 3 12:14 /lib/libiconv.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 3 12:14 /lib/libiconv.so ->
libiconv.so.2.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 3 12:14 /lib/libiconv.so.2 ->
libiconv.so.2.5.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1191794 Apr 3 12:14 /lib/libiconv.so.2.5.0
Apparently, the static libiconv.a should had been seen by the configure
script. I check then the config.log :
[root@pompomgalli] # less config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by bash configure 4.2-release, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63. Invocation command line was
$ ../bash-4.2_static/configure --prefix=/ --without-bash-malloc
--with-curses --enable-static-link --with-libiconv-prefix=/
## - ##
## Platform. ##
## - ##
hostname = pompomgalli
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.37.3-Zilog80
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #15 Mon Mar 28 20:53:38 CEST 2011
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: .
PATH: /bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
## --- ##
## Core tests. ##
## --- ##
configure:2094: checking build system type
configure:2112: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2134: checking host system type
configure:2149: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2806: checking for gcc
configure:2833: result: gcc
configure:3065: checking for C compiler version
configure:3073: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.5.2
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
configure:3077: $? = 0
configure:3084: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/lto-wrapper
Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-languages=c,c++,java --disable-libstdcxx-pch --prefix=/usr
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC)
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