Problems compiling rdesktop 1.4.1

[Ralf Folkerts]

Am Dienstag, den 17.05.2005, 17:48 +1000 schrieb Andy Newman:

Hi Andy,

> [...]
> I built rdesktop manually earlier today.  I haven't tried the port so
> please excuse any thing that's been gone over before or doesn't
> apply to the port.  It appears rdesktop's configure isn't picking
> up that iconv.h is in /usr/local/include.  Running configure with
> CPPFLAGS set to look there for headers fixed it, i.e.
> 
>     $ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ./configure ...
> 
> Note that without CPPFLAGS set like so configure reports,
> 
>     checking iconv.h usability... no
>     checking iconv.h presence... no
>     ...
>     checking for iconv... yes
> 
> 
> Looking at the code they're using two macros to control iconv
> related things, HAVE_ICONV and HAVE_ICONV_H. The check for
> HAVE_ICONV_H in the autoconf configure input doesn't appear
> to use the setting of the --with-libiconv-prefix switch to
> configure so needs the CPPFLAGS setting to look in /usr/local/include
> and set the HAVE_ICONV_H.

well, I just Portupgraded rdesktop and, as you suggested, passed "-M
'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include'" to portupgrade.

The compile ran thru fine!

Just wanted to let you (and others who have the same Problem) know that
your circumvention works :-)

Cheers,
_ralf_