Installation Produces Error

[gpearson]

Upon running make on CentOS 5.6 base install produces the following error: iconv is located in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/iconv-0.1/ext/iconv and /usr/bin/iconv

make[2]: Leaving directory /root/geocommons/geocoder/src/liblwgeom' make -C shp2sqlite make[2]: Entering directory/root/geocommons/geocoder/src/shp2sqlite'
gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o shpopen.o shpopen.c
gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o dbfopen.o dbfopen.c
gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o getopt.o getopt.c
gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o shp2sqlite.o shp2sqlite.c
gcc -L/usr/local/libiconv/lib/ -liconv -I/usr/include -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes shpopen.o dbfopen.o getopt.o shp2sqlite.o ../liblwgeom/liblwgeom.a -lc -lm -o shp2sqlite
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [shp2sqlite] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory /root/geocommons/geocoder/src/shp2sqlite' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory/root/geocommons/geocoder/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[sockmonk]

I had a similar problem. What you need to do is get the libiconv source from http://www.gnu.org/s/libiconv/, untar it in its own directory, and install as usual:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

The /usr/local is important, as the path to it is hardcoded in the shp2sqlite Makefile. Afterwards, I also had to symlink /usr/local/libiconv.so to /usr/lib/libiconv.so and run ldconfig, on SuSE Linux.