Dear all,
I wanted to upgrade gnome from 2.4 to 2.6 by a straightforward 'emerge
gnome'. Emerge failed at glib-2.4.0 because some trouble with iconv. I
have iconv/libiconv installed, during compile iconv.h was detected and
then compiling glib-2.4.0 failed as the proper flag for what type of
libiconv to be used was not set. After setting --with-libiconv=gnu the
problem was solved, but it was a manual configuration and compilation.

So, what is the appropriate way to tell the system to use libiconv? USE
contains already NLS, this seems not to be enough. Is there a special use
falg (I haven't found so in the documentation) or just using LDFLAGS for
the compiler/linker?

Thanks and best regards,
Klaus

Klaus Dahlke wrote:

> Dear all,
> I wanted to upgrade gnome from 2.4 to 2.6 by a straightforward 'emerge
> gnome'. Emerge failed at glib-2.4.0 because some trouble with iconv. I
> have iconv/libiconv installed, during compile iconv.h was detected and
> then compiling glib-2.4.0 failed as the proper flag for what type of
> libiconv to be used was not set. After setting --with-libiconv=gnu the
> problem was solved, but it was a manual configuration and compilation.
>
> So, what is the appropriate way to tell the system to use libiconv? USE
> contains already NLS, this seems not to be enough. Is there a special use
> falg (I haven't found so in the documentation) or just using LDFLAGS for
> the compiler/linker?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Klaus

I assume you already tried

# emerge -uD gnome

When I upgraded kde I omitted the D at least one of the features of KDE did
not work. Perhaps you are attempting to link with and old library.

Styvaen.