iconv trouble

[shestero]

In my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS trying avoid the bug in iconv utility https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6050 that affected me
I manually installed GNU Libiconv from here https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ ( using ./configure; make; sudo make install ).
Then iconv works no more at all:
$ iconv
iconv: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What should I do now to
1. restore my old iconv utility back (may be reinstall some packages?)
2. get a new iconv utility without the bug or another utility with the same functions without the bug.

[dargaud2]

Search for libiconv.so in either /lib or you compilation directory. Is the newly compiled version in the right place ?

Also, why can't you use a file as an intermediate step ? Instead of "someprog | iconv", run "someprog >/tmp/toconv; iconv /tmp/toconv"

[shestero]

I don't know where the "right place" is.
Content of my /usr/local/lib/ directory:
total 2716
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212 Mar 12 16:45 charset.alias
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42304 Mar 12 16:45 libcharset.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 936 Mar 12 16:45 libcharset.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 12 16:45 libcharset.so -> libcharset.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 12 16:45 libcharset.so.1 -> libcharset.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36914 Mar 12 16:45 libcharset.so.1.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912 Mar 12 16:45 libiconv.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 12 16:45 libiconv.so -> libiconv.so.2.5.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 12 16:45 libiconv.so.2 -> libiconv.so.2.5.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1340511 Mar 12 16:45 libiconv.so.2.5.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1315636 Mar 12 16:45 preloadable_libiconv.so
drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 Mar 4 22:47 python2.7
drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 Nov 1 01:57 python3.2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 08:51 site_ruby

Looks like there are no more libiconv.so.2 files in my system.

>Also, why can't you use a file as an intermediate step ? Instead of "someprog | iconv", run "someprog >/tmp/toconv; iconv /tmp/toconv"
Because:
1. data may be >>10 Gb. This overflow the RAM with buggy iconv. I found it so long as two years ago and write my own iconv, see here: http://netdbview.com/myiconv/
This code do my task well. Now (unfortunately) I tried to solve problem "in right way" (with "standard" tools).
2. data comes and receives slowly and should be processed on the flow in order to spare time. If you read all data then send all data it double the time.

[shestero]

Looks like I've solve my problem reinstalling reconfigured GNU libiconv with option:
./configure --prefix=/usr/

[steeldriver]

Looks like all it needs is to run ldconfig manually:



$ ldd $(which iconv)
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77b1000)
/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so (0xb76cc000)
libiconv.so.2 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb74f7000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77b2000)

$ sudo ldconfig -v
$
$ ldd $(which iconv)
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77b4000)
/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so (0xb76cf000)
libiconv.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 (0xb75c1000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb7416000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77b5000)