Here is a ebuild for dev-libs/libiconv-1.8 (the most recent version in portage is 1.7). libiconv 1.8 is needed for recent builds of Abiword. There isn't anything complicated in the ebuild, just a simple patch to make it stop looking in /usr/lib/ for libiconv.la during 'make install'. - olly
Created attachment 6588 [details] dev-libs/libiconv-1.8.ebuild
Why is this necessary for the abiword builds? is it not enough with glibc 2.3.x for abiword? the last time I instated this package a lot of things broke, mainly things that suddenly needed the --with-libiconv configure flag.
Because I hadn't read the install notes carefully enough :-/ If you pass --without-libiconv to configure then abiword will build happily without this package, so it isn't needed. Please close this bug (not sure if it should go to INVALID or WONTFIX so I'm not doing it myself).
doing just that