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Dave Korn wrote:

>   The standard autoconf library function detection test, for the sake of
> simplicity, declares the function prototype itself rather than including the
> header, so the name doesn't get translated and the function isn't found at
> link time.
> 
>   A patch such as the attached makes the configure test check if it's
> running on cygwin and look for libiconv() rather than iconv() in that case.
> It made gtmess build for me.

Or, instead of using the AC_CHECK_FUNC([ ... iconv ...]) method in your 
configure.ac or configure.in file, you instead use AM_ICONV defined in 
/usr/share/iconv.m4. This file is part of the gettext-devel pacakge.

This solution assumes that gtmess is using the automake and aclocal 
tools, and not just autoconf.  Otherwise, you could cut-n-paste the 
contents of /usr/share/iconv.m4 into gtmess's aclocal.m4 file -- and 
then use AM_ICONV in your configure.ac|configure.in file.

--
Chuck

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