Make iconv 1.11.x link correctly with libtool2 - argument "-Xcompiler" ensures "-shared" is passed to $(CC) when used as linker. Otherwise $(CC) tries to create an executable and fails while looking for a main()-function diff -ruN libiconv-1.11.1/lib/Makefile.in libiconv-1.11.1.mod/lib/Makefile.in --- libiconv-1.11.1/lib/Makefile.in 2006-07-14 15:18:42.000000000 +0200 +++ libiconv-1.11.1.mod/lib/Makefile.in 2010-12-01 20:47:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ preloadable_libiconv_linux.so : $(SOURCES) if test -n "@GCC@"; then \ - $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -fPIC -DPIC -DLIBICONV_PLUG $(SOURCES) -shared -o preloadable_libiconv_linux.so; \ + $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -fPIC -DPIC -DLIBICONV_PLUG $(SOURCES) -Xcompiler -shared -o preloadable_libiconv_linux.so; \ else \ - $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -KPIC -DPIC -DLIBICONV_PLUG $(SOURCES) -shared -o preloadable_libiconv_linux.so; \ + $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(DEFS) -KPIC -DPIC -DLIBICONV_PLUG $(SOURCES) -Xcompiler -shared -o preloadable_libiconv_linux.so; \ fi preloadable_libiconv_solaris.so : $(SOURCES)