Re: Build failure in get text-0.22.3 on MacOS Sonoma

[Bruno Haible]

John Dykstra wrote:
> > Thanks for the report. Can you please look for details in the config.log
> > file, after "checking for working iconv..." ? I'd like to know whether the
> > test program could not compile, could not link, ran and crashed, or ran
> > and returned an exit code, and which exit code.
> 
> The test program ran and returned a code of 1, which is why I identified that 
> particular test case as the cause.

OK, thanks.

I would suggest that you build and install GNU libiconv; it's mentioned
in gettext's DEPENDENCIES file. Then build GNU gettext again, with an
appropriate --with-libiconv-prefix option.

> Was 0.22.3 built only on Apple Silicon?

I tested it on macOS 12.5/arm64 and (IIRC) also on older macOS/x86_64 as well.
My macOS 12.5/arm64 binaries are linked against /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib;
so, obviously the configure test passed there.

> I’m puzzled by why you didn’t run into this, and why MacOS  iconv apparently 
> regressed.

Indeed, there appears to be a regression from macOS 12.5 to 14.0.

Bruno