linker error on OSX (symbol not found "_iconv")

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Hemanth Kapila <saihemanth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am not able to figure out the exact dependency issue here -  apparently,
> libHSrts cannot be built with the system version of libiconv  (configure
> step fails), while at the same time "ghc-stage1" relies on some system tool
> that needs older version of libiconv.
> Is that a fair picture of the problem? I wondered why this does not occur
> for ghc-7.8.4 distributed sources.
>

So presumably ghc HEAD requires a newer iconv now, presumably for better
encoding handling. Many things do, which is why both MacPorts and Homebrew
include the newer one (and then must hack around incompatibility) instead
of sticking to Apple's.

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