Re: Failure to link GDB 7.5

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:51:36 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > What is wrong with my libiconv?  (There's no other libiconv on this
> > system, which is why I built my own some time ago.)
> 
> I do not think it's your libiconv. It looks like the link command is
> missing the reference to libiconv (something like -liconv, or /path/to/
> libiconv.so in your case [which I find a little unusual on a Unix system]).
> It is probably a consequence of how you configured GDB. I think that
> if you configure with --with-libiconv-prefix=/path/to/libiconv/prefix,
> everything should work (famous last words).

It didn't work (note that in the original build, I showed a line from
the configure script output that found my libiconv).

But your suggestion pointed me in the right direction: I eventually
succeeded by running "make INTL='-L/home/e/eliz/lib -liconv'".

I wonder why the default command didn't work.  Let me know if you need
me to dig deeper.

Thanks.