Re: grep-2.7: build failure on systems with libiconv

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When building grep-2.7 on a glibc system with GNU libiconv installed, the
> build fails with a link error:
...
> Here is a fix. $(LIBICONV) should be at the end of LDADD.

Thanks!  I've applied that.

> Note that after applying this fix, I had to update src/Makefile.in by hand,
> because the automake/autoconf machinery refused to update anything, because 
> the
> version of automake with which the release was packaged (automake-1.11a) is 
> not
> a released version.

Yes, I did that deliberately.

I admit that it can impose a small burden on people who modify build
machinery and expect things to rebuild easily, but I think such people
generally have enough experience to be able to deal with the problem.
If not, they can check out the source and read the HACKING and README* files.