Re: [Exim] Problem installing exim-4.41

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Robin Cosby
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Problem installing exim-4.41
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Robin Cosby wrote:

> I should be grateful for any help in resolving the following problem,
> which I've encountered when trying to install exim-4.41. I have been
> using version 4.12 hitherto. I'm running Debian-3.0 with kernel-2.6.7
> on a PC.
>
> On issuing the "make" command, the following messages appear:
>
> rfc2047.o(.text+0x3a9): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
> : undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
> rfc2047.o(.text+0x47f): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
> : undefined reference to `libiconv'
> rfc2047.o(text+0x574): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
> : uundefined reference to `libiconv_close'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make [1] ***[exim] Error 1
> make [1] Leaving directory `/usr/local/exim-4.41/build-Linux-i386'
> make *** [go] Error 1
>
> I have libiconv-1.9.1 and the line "HAVE_ICONV=yes" in
> ~/Local/Makefile is uncommented.


Sound like libiconv is not installed in a standard place and so Exim
can't see it. As it says in the src/EDITME file:

# If you are not using one of those systems, but have installed iconv(), you
# need to uncomment that line above. In some cases, you may find that iconv()
# and its header file are not in the default places. You might need to use
# something like this:
#
# HAVE_ICONV=yes
# CFLAGS=-O -I/usr/local/include
# EXTRALIBS_EXIM=-L/usr/local/lib -liconv
#
# but of course there may need to be other things in CFLAGS and EXTRALIBS_EXIM
# as well.



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